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If your pilot suddenly keeled over, would you trust their spouse to fly the plane?
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Both men were overcome with emotion during the ceremony, in tears, and Rinderknech keeled over and had to be helped into a chair.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025
"When I'm older, when the body's keeled over a bit, I expect I'll pick up where I left off," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
Briggs, an entertainment lawyer, said he pushed for Sibley to become executive director of the commission, calling him “even keeled and even tempered.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Piper caught his shoulders as he keeled sideways.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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