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55 Years Ago: Lemoore Pilot Flies in on Wing and a Prayer to Safe Landing – LTJG Dennis Earl, 26-year-old Navy pilot of VA-163, based at NAS Lemoore, was shot

>> i concur. there is nothing out of the ordinary or suspicious with these. >> matt, if there were a fire on board, and the pilots were aware of it, would we expect to see some language about it some place some time in this, if they knew about it? >> if they knew about it, sure. but pilots abide by the -- a rule of thumb. aviate, navigate, communicate. they need to fly the airplane, then they need to communicate with ground and controllers, and then aviate, navigate and communicate with ground c...

One pilot flies while the other handles radio calls. the conversations match with what malaysian investigators and u.s. officials have told cnn, that the recordings indicated a normal flight. the radio calls were slightly casual but gave no sign the plane was about to disappear. at 1:07 a.m., a message saying that the plane was at 35,000 feet, a potentially odd sign identified by the paper because that same communication had already been given six minutes earlier. at 1:19 a.m., malaysian authori...

>> i concur. there is nothing out of the ordinary or suspicious with these. >> matt, if there were a fire on board, and the pilots were aware of it, would we expect to see some language about it some place some time in this, if they knew about it? >> if they knew about it, sure. but pilots abide by the -- a rule of thumb. aviate, navigate, communicate. they need to fly the airplane, then they need to communicate with ground and controllers, and then aviate, navigate and communicate with ground c...