A retired pilot involved in the investigation said that after the crash all of his colleagues thought the plane was destroyed by a bomb.

The retired pilots would almost certainly start flying for one of the major airlines within days of leaving the military.

The retired pilot, Charles C. Dent, acknowledges that the idea is "right out of left field."

He is a retired pilot who took float planes through alligator-filled swamps.

It's like trying to build and fly a kite with the unwelcome "help" of a bunch of retired 747 pilots.

But now Gennadi Osipovich, the 52-year-old retired pilot who pulled the trigger, is free to tell his story.

Welles commented, "I'm sure it could be true" of a retired pilot's claim to have the hardwood one.

Her father is a retired pilot for Trans World Airlines.

A retired pilot, I was painfully coming to terms with a broken leg and the prospect of never flying again.

Being a retired pilot, with flying privileges, he didn't worry that she was geographically undesirable.