Ariana's president, Jahed Azimi, a former airline pilot, has ambitious plans to rebuild the company.
It was November of 2000, and the then-58-year-old newly retired airline pilot was on jury duty.
Someday soon Herbert, the retired airline pilot, may no longer be such an exception to the rule.
That includes firefighter, number three on the list, commercial airline pilot, number four, and police officer, number ten.
However weird the scheme sounded, they were lulled by the fact that one promoter was a fellow airline pilot.
In Flight, Denzel Washington plays Whip Whitaker, a decorated airline pilot who is a darling of the friendly skies.
"That's aviation, " says airline pilot Patrick Smith of the aviation blog Askthepilot.com.
In my previous life as an airline pilot, preparing passengers for the disaster we hoped would never happen was routine.
"One guy flies while the other guy fixes, and then you make a decision, " says Justin Schlechter, a 13-year airline pilot.
"It very quiet, it's very serene and peaceful, " says Larry Koch, a retired airline pilot who lives in the mountains above Malibu.
After serving as a flight instructor during World War II, he turned down an airline pilot's career and returned to the workshop.
Veeck, a 60-year-old retired airline pilot, lives in a decaying two-story commercial building in Denison, a small city 70 miles north of Dallas.
Small story: Just the other day I was talking to an airline pilot, a captain, a highly respected man with decades of experience.
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Or you could have been a commercial airline pilot, jetting around the globe to exotic destinations with a crew of able flight attendants.
Jernnard's alleged stunt echoes that of conman Frank Abagnale, whose exploits posing as an airline pilot were turned into the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can.
Also killed was Dorothy Morris, a 76-year-old grandmother who spent several years traveling the country in a motor home with her husband, George, a former airline pilot.
Retired airline pilot John Cox told CNN that modern aircraft receive a constant stream of real time weather data which allows them to plot a course around storms.
John Cox, a former airline pilot and industry consultant, said "in some circumstances the system may work well" to cut fuel consumption, but worried about likely early glitches and unintended consequences.
The former airline pilot said he had ordered a review of bureaucracy in the force to be carried out within six months, to see if officers' time could be better spent.
What experienced commercial airline pilot, at this point in the game, would want to work for an airline that is struggling to pay the very people who keep the company airborne?
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Of course, we should mention airline pilot Chesley Burnett Sullenberger , whose incredible competence under pressure stood in stark contrast to a crumbling society as he saved the lives of 155 people in January of 2009.
She's convinced that she's seeing someone murder the kid in an apple orchard, but she's not really sure. (Her husband, an airline pilot played by Aidan Quinn, rightfully assumes she's a crackpot.) The apple motif appears repeatedly throughout the film, usually to less-than-inspiring effect.
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The co-pilot contacted the airline's chief pilot by radio and it was agreed that the crew would use a "left-wing-down" technique ensuring the left main wheels touched down on the runway first, with the remaining right main wheel then being lowered onto the runway as gently as possible.
The airline said the pilot of the Boeing 777 had reported falling asleep twice as he flew the plane across the Atlantic in 2011.
According to the FAA and the airline, a pilot noticed a low fuel pressure indication while on a flight from Denver, Colorado, on April 28, 2008.
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The alert, initially issued by Southwest Airlines and reissued Wednesday by the airline's pilot association, warned there was a "potentially significant hazard" concerning the instrument landing system's glide slope guidance signal for runway 23.
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By chance, the mass grounding of aircraft coincided with the death on December 27th of the pilot of airline deregulation.
Early in the flight attendant talks, the airline indicated that a pilot deal should come first because flight attendant schedules are linked to pilot schedules.
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You do not have to be a pilot or airline executive to grasp the simple concept that the best time to fly is when a storm is not taking place.
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In fact, pilot error is the leading cause of commercial airline accidents, with close to 80% percent of accidents caused by pilot error, according to Boeing.
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