ONE GOOD PILOT
The 70-year-old pilot of N1WA became incapacitated as his Cirrus SR22 climbed for 17,000 feet toward the Rockies. Without intervention he might have died. A regional airline crew knew that and worked with ATC and the pilot's wife (also on the Cirrus) to bring the small plane down, safely. 25-year-old Ian Norris was flying captain for the regional flight, and we spoke with him to hear the story. (Audio of the actual event is available here.)

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MATRIMONIAL CRM
Can't agree with your spouse on the quickest way to the supermarket? Lil and Roger LeBlanc flew as a crew of two in the King Air 100 doing charters around New England. AVweb's Russ Niles spoke with Lil about what it was like to live the dream of operating a mom-and-pop aviation enterprise and on the release of her new book The Flight Level Chronicles.

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UNDERSTANDING A COCKPIT IN CRISIS
The investigation into the crash of Air France Flight 447 has sparked comments on training and automation, but it hasn't provided much insight into the in-cockpit environment of a commercial airliner flying through storms over the ocean at night. For that, we asked 15,000-plus hour airline pilot Jason Goldberg. Then we asked him to describe what happens when systems fail.

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