When the pilot stepped out, onlookers realized it was Howard Hughes, one of Miss Hepburn's admirers.
The pilot stepped out clutching a cocktail shaker, poured four Daiquiris into the appropriate glasses, hopped back into his craft and took off.
There was no defect in the pilot step and I know nothing about how this accident happened except from the fact that the telegraph operator told me that something was wrong.
But more than ever, passengers relied on the comforting, sturdy voices of pilots. "After we were all boarded, the pilot stepped out of the cockpit and got on the P.A. system," said Vernon Yellott of DeQuincy, La., who boarded an Atlanta-bound American Airlines flight from Dallas shortly after hearing about the crash.
You, the pilot, step nimbly from the basket, and are acclaimed by all as some sort of divine hero from the skies; Apollo descended from the heavens.
Within hours, however, German airlines agreed to change the policy and will now require a flight attendant in the cockpit if a pilot steps out to go to the restroom or to get a drink.
Abrams gives an update on the Force for Change charity campaign in the video posted by Star Wars' official YouTube account, but is under no illusion as to what viewers are there for, with the camera slowly panning out to reveal an X-Wing in all its glory as a pilot steps into the cockpit.
If a pilot steps out of the cockpit, "another qualified crew member must lock the door and remain on the flight deck until the pilot returns to his or her station," the FAA said in a statement Thursday.
A young helicopter pilot steps off with just the clothes on his back, but smiling, happy to be alive, happy to be free.
These systems – designed to keep a plane on a steady, pre-programmed heading and altitude – introduced the first automation into the cockpit, allowing the pilot to step away from the controls.
