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I'm going to say it was Taito's Night Striker from 1989.
Had a sit-down cockpit cab, plot has a scientist and his daughter being abducted, it has Out Run style branching A-B-C style stages, your ship seems to be able to descend and drive on the road, and in the last stage you seem to have some sort of co-pilot with you, if not a different ship.
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I know I'm late to the party, but it really sounds like Pitfall II. It came out for different platforms, although I played it at an arcade room.
A video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWP7QilfCI
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