Sentence examples for airliner crew from inspiring English sources

Because the airport in Port-au-Prince could not handle so large a plane, the airliner crew flew to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, from where the supplies would be trucked into Haiti.

Greek television reported that early in the flight the airliner's crew had told air traffic control that there were problems with the air conditioning.

A4 Russia Plane Crash Kills 14 A large Russian airliner carrying crew members home from flight duty crashed into woods shortly after takeoff from Moscow's biggest airport, killing at least 14 people.

OTTAWA — The Jamaican police said Monday that they had custody of an armed man who had held a Canadian airliner and its crew hostage in Montego Bay, Jamaica on Monday, ending a 8-hour standoff in which no one was injured.

"Boy, it's the first free feeling I've ever had in a long time," Ali later observes in the cockpit of a Kinshasa-bound African airliner captained and crewed by other blacks.

"For me to go from being a captain from a big airliner and managing a crew to just being a U.S. citizen was not a big deal," Mr. Griffith said.

J. Richard Hackman, a Harvard psychology professor whose fieldwork sometimes took him to the cockpit of an airliner to observe the crew in a nearly five-decade quest to determine the dynamics of teamwork and effective leadership, died on Jan . 8in Boston.

The flight captain of a hijacked Afghan airliner said today that the crew escaped after despairing of persuading their captors to surrender.

A Russian airliner with 143 passengers and crew members crashed tonight near the Siberian city of Irkutsk on a flight from Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains to Vladivostok in the Far East.

It was just the 12th time the award had been presented in its 49-year history, and the first time it had been given posthumously to the crew of an airliner.

* 14 passengers, two crew injured as airliner dived.