Autopilot Sinks Absent-Minded Skipper
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A Finnish commuter ferry captain has been suspended after crashing into a pier because he forgot to turn off the autopilot -- for the second time in three days.
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A 23-year-old pilot took off Wednesday in a single-engine plane on the last leg of his three-month quest to circumnavigate the earth alone.
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The ship pilot who was at the helm when a freighter spilled 58,000 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay in November suffers from a sleep disorder and was on prescription medication to ward off drowsiness, people close to the investigation told The Associated Press.
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LOS ANGELES -- A pilot who died when his aerobatic plane plunged into the sea was an engineer who promoted fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles and was dubbed the "American father of the Prius."
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By Robert Nolin, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 11--He clambered out of his wheelchair and into the cockpit and for the first time experienced what it feels like to sail a boat.  "It was a great activity," said a grinning Emanuel Del Vecchio, 31, of Aventura.
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By CRAIG BROWN  AIR and sea rescuers were searching for a missing teenage canoeist last night after his craft was found washed up on a beach on the Isle of Lewis.
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Pacific search California coastguards are searching for Microsoft researcher Jim Gray, who was reported missing at 8.30pm on Sunday after failing to return from a solo boat trip.â¦
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British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur's bid to set a new solo round the world record is at the mercy of unpredictable wind conditions which have drastically reduced her once healthy lead.
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The 10-year-old spacecraft Â which gathered evidence of water in the planetÂs past Â has not communicated with flight controllers since Nov. 2.
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Sailors are bracing for the arrival in Norfolk this weekend of one of the bravest and most accomplished offshore skippers on earth. When Bernard Stamm rolls in, probably sometime Saturday, it will mark the end of 14,250 hard miles at sea, alone in a scary-fast sailboat.
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MANX REGISTERED SHIP SINKS NEAR FAROE ISLANDS FIVE men are missing after an Isle of Man-registered ship sank last night (Monday). The M/V Jokulfell had 11 crew members on board.
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Hope was fading that the missing multi-millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett would be found alive following his disappearance on Monday while flying a small plane over the vast Nevada desert, as it was revealed yesterday that he had taken only one canteen of water with him.
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America's Cup challenger New Zealand lost two tests at sea yesterday. First it could not control its own sails. Then it was defeated by defending champion Alinghi.
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A RECOVERY tug equipped with divers and airbags was last night on its way to a rendezvous with the upside-down 98-foot yacht Skandia, which was abandoned by her crew on Tuesday and left drifting unmanned in the Tasman Sea.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 -- Mark Rebholz had flown across the North Atlantic in an open-cockpit biplane with Steve Fossett. So when the more famous adventure pilot was reported missing in a stunt plane over the dry mountain terrain southeast of Reno on Sept. 3, Rebholz felt as much amused interest as...
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QUAKERTOWN, Pa. _ Capt. Charlie Roth opened a valve on his powerboat, disappearing in a momentary vapor cloud.
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Strange how captains of industry tend to concentrate on their personal lives when the company is sinking.