Sentence examples for pilot on the from inspiring English sources

But it might one day be harnessed to allow an airline pilot on the ground help someone land a plane whose own pilot is incapacitated.

The other day, he said, one worshiper informed him that his father was a pilot on the charter plane that crashed into the Red Sea this month.

On another day, a woman said her husband was a pilot on the first plane.

"Some of this was just forgetting how difficult it is getting a pilot on the air.

In World War II, he was a dive-bomber pilot on the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga.

As the only pilot on the staff, he took pictures while flying the plane.

(Robert Stack, who plays pilot-on-the-ground Rex Kramer, had starred in the cheesy in-flight melodrama The High and the Mighty in 1954).

It was only by reading messages that friends and family had posted on Hamid's Facebook wall that Roos realised he had been co-pilot on the MH370 flight.

For John Howlett, an Air Force Reserve co-pilot on the transport carrying the Special Forces unit, a call to active duty would not come as a surprise.

The co-pilot on the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps wanted to do "do something" history would remember him by, according to reports.

"You're always working trade-offs," said Einar K. Enevoldson, the founder and chief pilot of the project, who was Mr. Fossett's co-pilot on the record-breaking flight.