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2006 New York City plane crash

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Dennis E. Fitch

He was best known for his critical actions as an off-duty McDonnell Douglas DC-10 training captain who helped captain Alfred Haynes minimize loss of life on United Airlines Flight 232, when all flight controls were lost, on July 19, 1989.

Shadow squadron

Shadow squadron activation would have seen for example the RAF's Hawk trainers flown by flight instructors and pilots from the Red Arrows in the point air defence role with guns and sidewinder missiles.


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David A. Robinson

Taryn's flight instructor, James L. Weaver, age 64, was flying the Diamond Aircraft Industries DA20-C1, single-engine airplane, N63PA, when it clipped two high-tension power cables while simulating engine failure near Pleasanton, Texas.

Duane R. Bushey

He then served on board the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVS-33), with two follow-on tours as a flight instructor for fleet replacement navigators with Heavy Attack Squadron 123 at the Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Washington and Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 130 at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, where he served as Celestial and Radar Navigation Instructor.

Erskine Leigh Capreol

He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at Camp Borden, Ontario as a flight instructor for slightly over a year before he took work at de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited as chief test and demonstration pilot, in charge of testing and displaying new aircraft.

Frederick Brossy

Brossy later went on active duty and became a flight instructor at Long Beach Airport in Long Beach, California, in the late 1930s.

Garden City Community College

Associate of Applied Science is a terminal degree designed to provide students with occupational skills in a variety of areas; these areas include Mass Communications, Agriculture, Business, Environmental Technology, Personal Service, Hospitality Management, Health Information Management, Information Technology, Industrial Technology, Flight Instructor, and Public Service.

Hans-Joachim Pancherz

From 1933 he worked as a civilian flight instructor at the Würzburg, Kitzingen and Fürth flying schools, and at the Dresden LKS (Luftkriegsschule).

John H. Griffith

He subsequently returned to United Airlines as a flight instructor, until retiring to Penn Valley, California.

John Starnes

According to the Federal Aviation Administration airman certification inquiry, Starnes is also a flight instructor for single engine airplanes.

Louis Tancred

Louis Jnr instead joined the Royal Air Force and, while working as a flight instructor, was killed aged 34 in a plane crash at the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire.

Raab-Katzenstein

In 1926, he closed his print shop in Eschweiler and became a flight instructor with Raab-Katzenstein and continued to hone his flying skills, becoming an accomplished stunt pilot.

Teterboro Airport

The aircraft was owned and piloted by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who died in the accident along with his flight instructor.

W. R. Byron Airport

An interesting sidebar to history puts billionaire Kirk Kerkorian at Morton Air Academy as a flight instructor during the early World War II period flying throughout the California desert; he made a first career flying charters, and later building hotels like the MGM Grand years later.