Sentence examples for airplane strike from inspiring English sources

It was the summer of the airplane strike, so no planes were going over the stadium drowning out the music.

In July, after the London subway bombings, he caused a minor flap by suggesting that the federal government did not consider the threat of a subway bomb, which he said "may kill 30 people," to represent as high a priority as the "catastrophic" prospect of another airplane strike that could kill thousands.

The Great Airplane Strike 12. Louise 13.

In the past ten years, there have been seventy-eight geese strikes on airplanes (or airplane strikes on geese, depending on how you look at it).

Even after the second airplane struck, an open staircase connected the upper reaches of the south tower to the street.

The first hijacked airplane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8 48 A.M. By the time the north tower collapsed, it was ten-twenty-eight.

Mr. Purcell's second-in-command, Robert G. Scott, the firm's president, was delivering a speech at the Marriott Hotel next to the twin towers when the first airplane struck, setting the north tower afire.

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, in a black office tower at 1 Liberty Plaza across the street from the World Trade Center, was evacuated after the second airplane struck, said William Gorin, a partner at the firm.

As he and Ms. White recounted in separate interviews, moments after the first airplane struck, Ms. White dispatched Mr. Kelley and Barry W. Mawn, the top F.B.I. official in New York, to the site.

We went to his suite and at that moment, a second airplane struck the World Trade Center.

The airplane struck the floor numbered 40th (actually 30 flights of stairs above the street ) of the Belaire building at 524 East 72nd Street.