EditorialZakiya Percy, left, an instructor, runs through a preflight check with a student at the Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr. Flight Academy in Olive Branch, Miss., Feb. 10, 2022. (Andrea Morales/The New York Times)
EditorialA Mauritanian mechanic conducts a preflight check on a plane used to provide reconnaissance video durign a Pentagon-sponsored counterterrorism exercise in Atar, Mauritania on Feb. 19, 2020. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)