Plane & Pilot – September 2019

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6 GOING DIRECT

Why So Many

Plane Crashes?

By Isabel Goyer

8 PLANE FACTS

Altitude

10 MYSTERIES OF FLIGHT

TWA Flight 800

By Desiree Kocis

12 CROSS CHECK

Your Aviation Crossword

14 CHECK POINTS

News Of Note

By Bethany Whitfi eld and

Plane & Pilot Staff

16 ACCIDENT BRIEFS

Reports From The NTSB

18 GEAR

Cool Pilot Stuff

24 RISK

Listen To Your Airplane!

By Jason Blair

26 AIRFARE

Flown West Actually

By Jamie Tanabe

28 HUMAN FACTOR

Not Speaking Up

By Ira Heilveil, Ph.D.

30 LESSONS LEARNED
ABOUT FLYING
(And About Life)
Engine Out, Nowhere
To Land
By Dave St. Clair

40 CROSS-COUNTRY LOG

It’s Not Easy Being

Greenland

By Bill Cox

60 AFTER THE ACCIDENT

When Instruction

Turns Deadly

By Peter Katz

62 WORDS ALOFT

Tales A Mooney Might Tell

By Jeremy King

64 THIS INCREDIBLE PLANE

Lockheed C-130 Hercules

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ON THE COVER:

Jim Koepnick photographed this late

1920s WACO ASO biplane at Oshkosh

AirVenture. The photograph shows both

how limitations of shooting ground to air

can be overcome and how they continue

to present challenges.