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Show Aii airline was conducting a training flight for new personnel person-nel and, during the takeoff, the trainee flight engineer noticed suddenly that one of the engines was belching billows of black smoke. For a moment he was panic-stricken, panic-stricken, but he quickly recovered. recov-ered. With, the wrench that he had in his hand, he reached out and tapped the pilot on the shoulder. ' "We're on fire," he said: The pilot soon had the plane safely back on the ground. The green engineer was explaining to the ground crew how calmly and cool-headedly he had -spotted the trouble, how quickly he had called the pilot's attention to it without panic or excitement. As he was talking, he saw the pilot being carried from the plane on a stretcher. "What's the matter with him?" the trainee engineer asked. "Broken shoulder," somebody aid. |