copilot
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- n a relief pilot on an airplane
- The small, twin-engined plane had apparently been flying low, and investigators guessed that the distinguished passenger in the copilot's seat must have ordered the pilot to do so .
- For this feat the flight leader received the Silver Star, his copilot the Distinguished Flying Cross.
- Pilot Ernest Clark, his copilot, stewardess and all 41 passengers were killed.