Investigators determined that the three-man flight crew had discovered their flight data recorder wasn't working (more fodder for the Watergate conspiracy), and were fiddling with that rather than properly preparing the plane for landing.
The GlobalFlyer team raced to prepare the plane for takeoff after turbulence and unfavourable winds earlier that afternoon prevented the aircraft from taking off, leaving a window of just 25 minutes before the light faded completely.
The other type is a "signaling device for the cabin crew" — when the seat-belt sign is turned on or off, when the plane reaches 10,000 feet (so that electronics are o.k. to use) and when initial descent begins, so it's time to prepare the plane for landing.
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Petrographic thin sections were prepared in the plane parallel to the shear direction and perpendicular to the foliation.
Another is whether the world's major airports will be prepared to handle the plane.
James Collins, 54, also a pilot, stood on the ground listening to his mother as she prepared to land the plane.
Mr Almog told the Guardian yesterday that, as he prepared to leave the plane, he was advised to wait by the cabin crew.
As she prepared to exit the plane in San Salvador, she kept her back to the small crowd of airport employees, adjusted her hair and composed her features.
As she prepared to bring the plane down, she said: "Could you have the medical meet us there on the runway as well?
The chill interrupts his nail biting and signals its time for him to unbuckle from the aluminium floor, pull his goggles over his eyes, and prepare to exit the plane.
