The airport ground crew tried to dissuade the pilot from taking off.

机场地勤曾试图劝阻飞行员起飞。

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In a bid to keep the peace, the ground crew at the gate soon offered meal vouchers, rebooked tickets and even compensation miles to those dogged enough to keep their vigil at the gate.

登机口处的地乘为了保持大家情绪稳定，提供了餐券，重新定的机票甚至还给了那些在登机口处的顽强抵抗者们补偿英里数。

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank the many British pilots, air staff, ground crew and everyone who worked so hard to support the Nato mission and the work of the NTC.

我愿趁此机会感谢许多英国飞行员、空务人员、地勤人员和每一个如此辛苦工作以支持北约任务和全国过渡委员会工作的人。

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Tired of waiting, he told the ground crew: "Why don't you fellows solve your little problems and light this candle."

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For five days, through one crisis after another, the Apollo 13 crew and mission specialists on the ground worked through each difficulty.

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It seems that someone had reported one or more mosquitoes on the plane on an incoming flight, so the ground crew insisted on fumigating and the flight crew refused to fly a recently fumigated plane.

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Since this was a classified mission for the Department of Defense (you know, to handle super secret military stuff), the shuttle's crew was forced to encrypt the images of the damaged tiles it sent back to NASA, which lowered the resolution of the images enough that the ground crew wrote off the damage as a trick of the light.

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Hidden in a hangar at the US Navy's Patuxent River Air Base, in Maryland, away from prying eyes and shaded from the intense sun, US and British ground crew made the final preparations before the plane took to the clear blue skies.

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