Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mike Murphy of Washington, D.C., said the plane was making what seemed to be a normal approach to the airport, "then the pilot announced there was a problem with the landing gear...
...pilot, Capt. Robert Smith, downplayed his efforts and said Boeing 727s are "fabulous" aircraft...
...This was all in a day's work as far as I'm concerned," said Smith, 47, a former Navy pilot. Smith flew for Eastern Airlines for 19 years before developer Donald Trump inaugurated the Trump Shuttle service on June 8 after buying the planes and landing rights from Eastern for $365 million...
...people in the front were screaming and yelling," said James Moriarty of New York. "[The pilot] said be prepared for metal on concrete. So that's what we were preparing for. It wasn't that bad, though. You felt like you were just waiting for the nose to drop...
...learn we had a landing-gear problem. People kind of looked around. The pilot announced there was a mechanical problem. We went out over the water and did what they call a G-force manuever, it was like a roller coaster. Then we tried to land hard to bounce it free. That didn't work...