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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- The Los Angeles Times' headquarters aptly sits where the U.S. Army corralled camels during the Civil War, when Southern California was a desert with no natural resources.

A new film on PBS explores how the Chandler family helped develop Los Angeles through their newspaper.

Los Angeles' development from an arid wasteland to a world metropolis and cultural capital is closely linked to the newspaper's rise under the ownership of one family.

"It would still be a desert," documentary filmmaker Peter Jones said, if Gen. Harrison Gray Otis didn't arrive in the 1880s to take over the bankrupt Los Angeles Times and his son-in-law, Harry Chandler, wasn't there to follow him.

Jones' documentary is a saga of four generations of the region's most powerful family shaping Los Angeles as they pursued their own civil agendas -- and accumulated wealth. "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times" premieres Monday on PBS.

Historian David Halberstam said in the documentary that the Chandlers dominated Southern California as no other family has dominated any major region of the United States.

"They did not so much foster the growth of Los Angeles as invent it," said Halberstam, who died in 2007.

Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Norman Chandler and Otis Chandler succeeded each other at the helm of the Los Angeles Times over a span of 100 years.

The city grew from a small desert town to the nation's second-largest city, while the family became one of the nation's wealthiest.

The Chandler family dynasty ended when the general's great-grandson Otis Chandler was ousted as chairman of the Times board of directors in 1985. The family eventually sold its Times-Mirror Company to Chicago's Tribune Company -- which is now in bankruptcy.

Each man's personality and strengths were tailored for what was demanded of their time, said Jones. "For each era, they were up to that particular era," he said.

"You couldn't actually rearrange them," said Harry Chandler's namesake and the great-great-grandson of the general.

"You couldn't have a General Otis in late 20th-century America," Chandler told CNN, referring to the dynasty's founder who served as an Army general in the Philippine-American War before taking over the Los Angeles Times.

"His character was one of the period. 'I have a vision and everything I touch needs to support that vision and damn the consequences.'"

Otis used his newspaper to scare the public about the threat of drought, drumming up support for a 230-mile aqueduct -- one of the modern engineering marvels -- to divert water from the Owens Valley to Los Angeles, Jones said.

He was part of a syndicate that bought vast tracts of barren land in the San Fernando Valley with the inside knowledge the Los Angeles Aqueduct would bring water there.

The scandal later inspired Roman Polanski's award-winning film "Chinatown."

Otis also used the Times to influence the federal government's decision to build the Port of Los Angeles, Jones said.

"He had the foresight to say 'We have to build a man-made harbor here in Los Angeles if we want to become a major port of trade,' and today the Port of Los Angeles is the busiest port in the United States," Jones said.

The general and his successor son-in-law promoted investment in and migration to the Los Angeles area with stories of sunshine and opportunity. More people moving in meant more readers for their newspaper and demand for the real estate empire they were building.

Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler used their newspaper to create a vision of Los Angeles as "America's Great White Spot" -- free of crime and communism.

They fought a decades-long battle against labor unions -- a battle that included the 1910 bombing of The Los Angeles Times headquarters.

The Los Angeles film, aviation, high technology, shipping and oil industries grew from the Chandlers' influence, Jones said.

As a conservative Republican family, they helped launch Richard Nixon's political career in post-World War II California.

The story is not all about the men. Dorothy Chandler -- the strong-willed wife of Norman Chandler -- waged a relentless campaign to turn Los Angeles into a world-class cultural center, Jones said.

She led a campaign to raise money to save the Hollywood Bowl and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In doing so, she brought together the Westside Jewish community with the white Protestant establishment based in Pasadena, Harry Chandler said.

Tom Johnson, who became first nonfamily publisher of the Times in 1980, said one of Dorothy Chandler's "most remarkable" contributions was the successful effort to make sure her son Otis succeeded her husband as publisher in 1960.

"The very new approach that Otis took and his leadership of the newspaper was just astounding," Johnson said in an interview with CNN. Otis Chandler gave reporters editorial independence, opened news bureaus around the world and strengthened the paper's coverage of the suburbs, Johnson said.

Under Otis Chandler, it rose from being one of the worst major papers in the country to being one of the top three, Johnson said.

"It was his goal to make the Los Angeles Times one of the best newspapers, and he did it in 20 years, being the right publisher at the right time," Johnson said.

But Otis Chandler's transformation of the Times from a conservative newspaper into a Pulitzer Prize-winning rival to the New York Times and Washington Post angered many Chandler family members.

"Some Chandlers were members of the John Birch society; his paper did an expose on it," Johnson said.

Otis Chandler's newspaper looked closely at the Los Angeles Police Department, "which had a reputation to shoot first and ask questions," Johnson said.

The deep family rift eventually led to the sale of the Times-Mirror Company to the Tribune Company -- and the end of the dynasty.

Johnson, who left the newspaper in 1989 and later became chairman of CNN, said the paper declined in the years since because "rather than going for people who were superb newspaper people, they went outside to pick people who, in my opinion, blew the place apart."

Some Chandler family descendants cooperated with Jones' efforts to explore the Chandler family's dealings.

"He doesn't whitewash, but he doesn't dig into the dark side and linger too long," said Harry Chandler, the son of Otis Chandler. The documentary is "on whole, a very balanced, very accomplished, incredibly well researched" documentary, Chandler said.

Jones said he avoided judging the motives of Gen. Otis and his successors.

"When these guys were going about building the city, sometimes they did things, I wouldn't say in an underhanded way, but in a very private way," Jones said. "How do you ascribe motives to people who did things 100 years ago? Was it for greed, avarice and duplicity? History in general is this tangled web of good and evil."

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question: What is the name of the program premiering on Monday on PBS?

answer: "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times"

text: "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times"

question: What is teh name of the show that premiers on Monday?

answer: "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times"

text: "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times"

question: What comparative size is Los Angeles currently?

answer: nation's second-largest city,

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question: What premiers on PBS on Monday?

answer: "Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times"

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question: What did L.A. grow from?

answer: an arid wasteland

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question: When did the Chandler family newspaper dynasty end?

answer: 1985.

question: When did the Chandler newspaper dynasty end?

answer: 1985.

question: When did the newspaper dynasty end?

answer: 1985.

question: Which city started out as a small desert town?

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(CNN) -- While Sen. Barack Obama says he'll visit Iraq and Afghanistan before the election, he's staying consistent with his plans to start withdrawing U.S. troops almost immediately should he become president.

Sen. Barack Obama says he'll go to Iraq and Afghanistan before November.

Obama says the need to withdraw troops is twofold:

"One is to spur more action out of the Iraqis. ... But the second reason for withdrawal is the fact that we're spending $10 [billion] to $12 billion a month in Iraq," Obama said Monday while on a two-day swing through Michigan.

"The people here in Flint, Michigan, who I'm going to be talking to, would like to see some of that investment made here at home."

Obama also expressed concern that the Bush administration would rush to make some sort of status of forces agreement that would be binding to the next administration.

The war in Iraq is a key issue for voters in the United States, and Obama and Sen. John McCain offer vastly different solutions for how to handle it.

Obama supports a phased withdrawal of troops. He says he'd remove all combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months of taking office if he becomes president.

McCain does not think American troops should return to the United States until Iraqi forces are capable of maintaining a safe, democratic state. He has been a strong advocate of the "surge" -- the 2007 escalation of U.S. troops -- and says troops should stay in Iraq as long as needed.

McCain says Obama is wrong for opposing the increased troop presence, and Obama says McCain's judgment is flawed.

Obama spoke Monday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and told him he looked forward to seeing him in Baghdad before November. He also said he planned to visit Afghanistan before the election.  Watch Obama say he's going to Iraq Â»

"I emphasized to him how encouraged I was by the reductions in violence in Iraq, but also insisted that it is important for us to begin the process of withdrawing U.S. troops, making clear that we have no interest in permanent bases in Iraq," Obama said.

"I gave [Zebari] an assurance that should we be elected, an Obama administration will make sure that we continue with the progress that's been made in Iraq, that we won't act precipitously," he said.

Obama said Zebari did not express concern about a withdrawal of American troops, saying, "He did emphasize his belief that we've made real progress and, I think, was eager to see political accommodations between the factions follow up in the wake of this progress."

About the same time Obama was speaking to his traveling press corps, McCain told reporters at a press conference at his Arlington, Virginia, headquarters that Obama "is now is closing in on his 900th day since he visited Iraq."

The Republican National Committee has a counter on its Web site that clocks the time since Obama's last visit to the country.

"The whole debate in this campaign should be about whether we're going to allow that surge to continue to succeed or we're again going to do what Sen. Obama wanted to do, and that is to set a date for withdrawal long ago without giving the surge a chance to succeed," said McCain, again criticizing Obama for not meeting directly with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq.

"I don't know how you can draw conclusions such as Sen. Obama has without even sitting down and talking with our commander on the ground," he added.

McCain sat down with the visiting foreign minister one day before Obama.  Watch McCain talk with Zebari Â»

The senator from Arizona said they had a "very good discussion about the challenges that have been overcome and the challenges that lay ahead," and he said there is "no doubt" that the surge has succeeded.

There have been recent improvements in Iraq, where there are more than 150,000 U.S. troops. The number of deaths of U.S. troops there was at a five-year low last month, and Zebari said Saturday that the country has the lowest level of violence in the past four years.

Military experts and Brookings analysts Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack triggered criticism last year when they returned from Iraq and argued that things were not as bad as they had seemed.  Watch experts weigh in on Iraq Â»

"I do think that there was a sense among the Democratic Party that the war, and the failure of the war, was going to be a major election issue for them that they could use against the Republicans," Pollack said Sunday on CNN.

"And so, when you had two Democrats coming back and saying, 'Look, there actually is progress there. This thing is not completely lost, and we ought to give it some more time' -- which is effectively all we were saying -- I think that this was a bombshell, because it wasn't what people had heard before."

O'Hanlon said Sunday that they've seen continued progress, especially in the capabilities of the Iraqi security forces.

He said Democrats are not rethinking their Iraq policy because, for many of them, "this is the symbol of the Bush administration's failed foreign policy."

"This became the symbol of Bush administration arrogance and unilateralism. And then, for four years it went badly. So, given that backdrop, it's pretty hard for Democrats to come around to the idea that perhaps, by Bush finally letting professionals run this war instead of ideologues, that we have begun to rescue this situation. I think that's the simplest interpretation."

CNN's Alexander Marquardt and Chris Welch contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pirates in ships are searching for the lifeboat containing four pirates and their hostage -- the captain of a freighter they failed to hijack earlier this week -- according to a U.S. military official with knowledge of the situation.

Capt. Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is being held by pirates on a lifeboat off Somalia.

The pirates are using ships they have already hijacked and larger ships from which they are launching skiffs, the official said Friday.

One of the pirated ships is the German cargo ship Hansa Stavanger, seized April 4 off the coast of Somalia.

The U.S. military has been monitoring communications between the pirates, the official said. The guided missile frigate USS Halyburton, with helicopter capabilities, has now joined the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge in the area. A third ship, the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer, which has a large medical facility on board, will be there within a day.

Richard Phillips, the hostage, tried to escape from the pirates Thursday night by jumping out of the lifeboat, a U.S. official said Friday.  Watch what it's like inside a lifeboat Â»

Phillips was believed to be trying to swim to the USS Bainbridge, which is in communication with the four gunmen holding Phillips in the 28-foot boat off Somalia's coast, the official said.

Some of the kidnappers jumped into the water, recaptured Phillips, and returned him to the lifeboat, according to the official.  Watch what happened when captain tried to escape Â»

The pirates fired shots, the military official said, but had no further details.

A Defense Department official told CNN that Phillips appeared to be tied up by the pirates after the escape attempt.

The U.S. official -- who did not want to be named because of the sensitive nature of the situation -- said the escape attempt is being viewed by negotiators as an "optimistic sign" that Phillips is in good health. He has been held since Wednesday, when the hijackers seized control of his U.S.-flagged ship, the Maersk Alabama.  Watch expert talk about hostage escape attempts Â»

The captain's wife Andrea Phillips thanked everyone for their support in a statement.

"My husband is a strong man and we will remain strong for him," she said. "We ask that you do the same. "

Phillips' 20-man crew regained control of the vessel, and they and the vessel are en route to Mombasa, Kenya, according to the father of one of the crew members.

The ship's owners -- the Norfolk, Virginia-based Maersk company -- would not say how the crew regained control. "There will be time for due diligence and retrospective review once we have the safe return of all parties and the opportunity for a full debriefing," it said in a statement.

For the U.S. Navy, the show of strength is more than just a means to resolve a hostage situation, said Chris Lawrence, CNN's Pentagon correspondent.

Attacks in the area have picked up so drastically in recent months that the Navy has to reposition some of its fleet to deal with the threats, he said. iReport.com: How should the U.S. respond?

The pirates have shown no signs of giving in.

The Maersk Alabama was on its way to Mombasa, Kenya, with a cargo of food aid when it was attacked Wednesday. It was the first time in recent history that pirates had targeted an American ship.

The ship was hijacked some 350 miles off Somalia's coast, a distance that used to be considered safe for ships navigating in the pirate-infested waters.

CNN's Mike Mount and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- In India he's an icon and to the rest of the cricketing world he's simply known as one of the greatest ever batsmen.

One the game's greats, Sachin Tendulkar is more than just a player in India, he's an icon.

Sachin Tendulkar picked up a bat at the age of 4 in Mumbai and from that day on fell in love with the game.

"The only thing that was on my mind was, 'I want to play for India one day,' and I was pretty sure and confident that one day I will," he told CNN in Mumbai.

In fact he made his Test debut for India at the age of 16 facing Pakistan's fearsome bowling attack, just two years after making his first-class debut for Mumbai.

Despite a baptism of fire in that first international match and getting hit on the mouth by a ball from Waquar Younis, he took his own game forward and has become known for the positivity of his play and the compact efficiency and brilliance of his shot-making.

Making his first Test hundred at the age of 17 against England he has racked up the records in a 19-year career.

In 2000 he became the first batsman to score 50 international hundreds, and is the highest scorer in One Day internationals. He joined an elite group in 2007 when he became only the third player to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket.

Nicknames in cricket are common, but only if you're a really exceptional player do you get one that's complementary. Tendulkar has joined that elite as the "Little Master" which sits nicely next to other great batsmen, Viv "Master Blaster" Richards and Brian "The Prince" Lara.

But perhaps no higher praise came from Australian cricketing legend Donald Bradman who once said that Tendulkar was the only player that reminded him of himself.

Like all sportsmen he's suffered from injury, and now 35-years-old, many are wondering if his best days are behind him.

Playing for India against England and Australia last summer and at the beginning of 2008, many commentators thought that his normal aggression and daring were missing from his game. His form was also heavily criticized after the 2007 World Cup, and injury forced him out of the international series against South Africa.

But for the man used to batting away tricky deliveries, this criticism gets a typical positive response: "I'm not one to dwell on the past. I like to move forward and these challenges, these hurdles in between, they bring the best out of me. They motivate me even more."

He's currently facing the challenges of the rapid-fire version of the game in the Indian Premier League (IPL), masterminded by Lalit Modi, that despite it's glitz and hype has been criticized for losing some of the finer points of the sport.

"It's so full of excitement. I personally don't feel that it's dumbing-down the game. It's just another version of cricket. If the game is going to be globalized in the form of IPL, then why not? It's better for cricket," he told CNN.

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HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Like that other famous environmentalist, Thomas Friedman began his talk at the Asia Society in Hong Kong on December 16 with a simple PowerPoint slide. But that's where the similarities between Al Gore and The New York Times columnist end.

Thomas L. Friedman has taken on a green hue with his latest book, "Hot, Flat and Crowded".

Unlike Gore, Friedman is a distinctly different shade of green, a deeply pragmatic green that believes economic forces can usher in a revolution in environmental policy. He argues that systemic change simply requires showing the world that it needs green technology and letting pure economics do the rest.

As a journalist, Friedman makes no claims to having scientific expertise in climate change. He is approaching it from a philosophical standpoint.

Green capital

Friedman's new book "Hot, Flat and Crowded" is not a major departure from his previous books. Whether he's discussing globalization or green industry, he is writing from his deep-seated belief in the markets. He is an unabashed capitalist.

For Friedman, the system works but it's not immune to bad decision-making. Green industry like globalization will come of age if given the right market environment. His faith in capitalism is equal to that in green technology -- for him, these are two things that are clearly reconcilable.

So how do we do this? America as the bastion for innovation, Friedman argues, should play a big role. In fact, he confesses it really isn't a book about the environment and energy, its a book about America. For Friedman, America is slipping down the ranks of hegemonic power and climate change is its big chance to reposition itself as a global leader. The environment is merely an allegory for how the U.S. will achieve this revival.

As an extension of that argument, all countries need to do the same. Right now, no country has really taken the lead in environmental technology, so what we have at the moment is an all out race to the top. Indeed Friedman's book was written before the financial meltdown but recent events have furthered his argument that environmental technology is the solution of all solutions. It's a sentiment I also came across at the recent Clinton Global Initiative meeting.

Green Dream Team

Friedman seemed cautiously optimistic about Obama's ability to lead the green revolution. Given the disarray of many of America's financial institutions, it's unclear whether this new green message will get through.

A glimmer of hope however is Obama's newly appointed energy secretary Steven Chu. There's been extensive chatter about him on environmental blogs in recent days with the media calling Chu the head of Obama's "Green Dream Team."

Friedman made a ringing endorsement of Chu as did many in the audience that day. Steven Chu, Nobel Laureate and the head of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, is seen as a promising choice for many environmentalists, one perhaps that proves Obama's intention to fulfill a key campaign promise on energy policy.

Chu himself underwent an interesting move from physics to environmental technology. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 but left the world of Quantum Physics to study the science of global warming. As head of Berkeley National Lab, he led projects to the tune of $650 million channeling much of it towards green technology to develop advanced biofuels and solar power.  Watch a video of Steven Chu from Berkeley University

Changing light bulbs and leaders

The audience listening to Friedman that day was clearly appreciative of his no-nonsense approach to the green issue. As Friedman puts it, "it's not about changing light bulbs, it's about changing leaders."

He confessed to having attended too many Earth Day concerts in the past and that no matter how many celebrities you get to show up or how you offset the event, it won't be enough to set off this green revolution.

So as I sat there wondering whether the fish the guests had been eating for lunch was sustainable, for Friedman, it didn't really matter. For his revolution, he had bigger fish to fry.

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question: What is the solution of all solutions?

answer: environmental technology

text: environmental technology

question: What type of approach does he have to environmentalism?

answer: a philosophical standpoint.

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question: Who also means to transform U.S economy?

answer: Thomas L. Friedman

text: Thomas L. Friedman

question: Where did the author speak?

answer: in Hong Kong

text: in Hong Kong

question: What is Friedman the author of?

answer: "Hot, Flat and Crowded".

text: "Hot, Flat and Crowded".

question: What is the solution to all solutions according to Friedman?

answer: environmental technology

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(CNN) -- One person has died and another was trapped in a pair of avalanches in the Utah mountains Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

One of the Utah avalanches, at Snowbird Ski Resort, buried one woman under 2 feet of snow. She later died.

Heather Gross, 27, died Sunday evening at a hospital in Salt Lake City from her injuries, Salt Lake County Sheriff's Deputy Levi Hughes said.

Gross, a county resident, had been buried under 2 feet of snow by an early-afternoon snowslide at Snowbird Ski Resort, Hughes said.

Rescue teams found her about an hour after the avalanche, and she was flown to University of Utah hospital, where she died.

A man who was with her at the time was not injured and reported the slide, Hughes said.

A second avalanche occurred nearby in the backcountry area known as Lake Desolation, said Randy Doyle, a spokesman for the Big Cottonwood Canyon resorts nearby.

He said the avalanche, which left at least one person trapped, was not within the resort.

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question: Where was the avalance?

answer: Utah mountains

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question: What was the woman buried in?

answer: 2 feet of snow.

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question: Who died of their injuries?

answer: Heather Gross,

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question: Who was buried under the snow?

answer: Heather Gross,

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question: Where was the woman buried?

answer: Snowbird Ski Resort,

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question: What happened to the woman?

answer: died.

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question: How many people were trapped?

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Federal investigators trying to determine why a Delta Air Lines jet landed on a taxiway instead of the runway in Atlanta on Monday morning say the runway was illuminated, but that approach lights and a ground-based instrument that helps pilots line up with the runway were off.

The pilots of the plane that landed at the Atlanta airport have been relieved from flying duties pending probes.

The incident happened at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest. But it occurred shortly before dawn, when airport operations are slow.

Delta Flight 60, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was cleared to land on a main runway around 6:05 a.m., but it landed instead on nearby Taxiway M, which runs parallel to the runway, said FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen.

The departure taxiway, which can be filled with aircraft during peak hours, was empty at the time, and the plane landed safely, officials said. No one was injured, and there was no damage to the taxiway.

The Boeing 767 aircraft had 182 passengers and a crew of 11.

The FAA, the National Transportation Safety Board and Delta Air Lines are investigating. The pilots of the aircraft were placed on nonflight status, Delta said.

The NTSB on Wednesday confirmed that a "check pilot" on the flight was sick, and the crew had declared a medical emergency. It was not clear what, if any, role that played in the mishap.

Sources familiar with the incident say that Flight 60 originally was scheduled to land on Runway 27L (left), the active runway at that time, but was "sidestepped" to Runway 27R (right). Pilots commonly ask to be "sidestepped" to Runway 27R -- and air traffic controllers commonly offer 27R -- because it is closer to the terminal and pilots can shave minutes from a trip.

In this case, it is not clear whether the pilot made the request, or the air traffic controllers made the offer. Nor is it clear why the change was made -- whether to shave time from the flight, or because of the medical emergency on the aircraft or  some other reason.

But after being given permission to land on Runway 27R, the plane went too far to the right, landing on Taxiway M.

The runway was marked with yellow lights, while the taxiway was marked with blue lights, one person familiar with the incident said.

The NTSB said the runway lights on 27R were illuminated, but a "localizer" and approach lights for the runway were off.

Officials said the weather at the airport was clear, and the NTSB said the wind was calm at 10 mph. The sky was dark, with twilight still more than an hour away.

The NTSB said a "check airman" was in the cockpit with the captain and first officer during the flight, but became ill and moved to the cabin for the remainder of the flight. Check airman are company pilots who watch over crew members during significant flights, such as when a first officer becomes a captain, when a pilot is making a maiden international flight, or over mountainous terrain for the first time. The NTSB said it is uncertain why the check airman was on the Delta flight.

Delta spokesman Anthony Black said the airline is cooperating with the FAA and the NTSB and conducting its own investigation. The pilots of the flight have been relieved from active flying, he said.

The incident came just two weeks after the FAA announced that serious runway incursions were down 50 percent this year. Close calls in 2007 at some of the busiest U.S. airports prompted the FAA to take action to reduce the risk of runway incursions and wrong runway departures. There were 24 serious runway incursions that year, eight of them involving commercial carriers.

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question: where was the plane from

answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

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question: Where did Delta flight 60 land instead of the runway in Atlanta Georgia?

answer: on a taxiway

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question: where did it land

answer: on a taxiway

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question: Who declared medical emergency?

answer: the crew

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question: who was sick before landing

answer: "check pilot"

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question: Were there any planes on the taxiway waiting to take off?

answer: was empty at the time,

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question: Who was sick before landing resulting in crew declaring medical emergency?

answer: a "check pilot"

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question: Where Delta Flight fly?

answer: from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

text: from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,