Sentence examples for be the pilot of from inspiring English sources

During one of the calls, the hoax caller allegedly pretended to be the pilot of a light aircraft as he spoke to an air traffic controller.

They were Mr. Atta Mr. Shehhii, believed to be the pilot of United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center; and Ziad al-Jarrah, believed to be the pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania.

At her stepfather's funeral in Chicago, Lois finds herself flirting with Max, who turns out to be the pilot of the plane on which she's just endured an excruciating, turbulent flight.

Barking, in east London, was to be the pilot of pilots, launching a competition to masterplan a new future for the maligned Lintons estate, which KCA entered and won.

He said Friday that he was supposed to be the pilot of a plane that would have flown into the White House if the United States refused to release Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind Muslim scholar who is serving a life sentence for conspiracy to blow up New York bridges and tunnels and other landmarks in 1993.

He opined that: "The chances of Frank being on that plane are astronomical and the fact that he was supposed to be the pilot of Flight 815 just makes the situation all the more unusual.

Mr. Jarrah is presumed to have been the pilot of the aircraft that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Our driver, John Napier, 21, was the pilot of the United States national team's No. 3 sled.

One was the pilot of a Betty, a Japanese bomber, who jumped our small landing task force.

He was born in England but is a NASA astronaut who was the pilot of the STS-123 Endeavour shuttle trip to the International Space Station in March 2008.

He was the pilot of the 901-foot Cosco Busan when it slammed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on the foggy morning of Nov. 7, 2007.