Every airplane we have has redundant systems, and a protocol of what to do when a pilot suspects there could be a problem.

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.

John Ritter had told everybody to introduce me as an airplane pilot to fool Don. He turned purple when he found out I worked for the studio.

He was the best pilot I've ever known, ... He was a natural at the controls of an airplane. He did things with an airplane that it didn't seem other people could do.

It is a complex airplane and someone would have to be an experienced pilot to fly that type of aircraft.

I'm not the one to always follow professional protocol - but I do know what it is, even at 24 years old.