81.  The ability of the American pilot to manipulate the open microphone button on the back of the control yoke enabled controllers to learn quickly that the plane was hijacked.

82.  The agreement would have made American pilots the highest-paid in the industry.

83.  That led to improvements by Ryan in the search-and-rescue units that were used on Saturday to save a downed American pilot who crashed in Yugoslavia.

84.  The American pilot then read back the entire instruction, punctuated with his airline and flight number.

85.  The American pilots say that these pilots and jets, able to link New York and Dallas, will take over many more of their routes.

86.  The biggest trap would be losing an American pilot.

87.  The agreement would allow American pilots who are laid off to fly small jets at Eagle.

88.  The American pilot was flying a routine NATO monitoring mission when his plane was downed by a Serbian missile near the northern town of Banja Luka.

89.  The American pilots were nonunion.

90.  The class nonetheless illustrates the waning fortunes of the great American pilot.