Crews on the ground applauded when planes took off, and passengers applauded when they landed.
When he got off the plane Wednesday morning at the Hartford airport, he said, a group of people awaiting the next plane applauded him.
When I confirmed that I was indeed a Medal of Honor recipient, the crew announced it over the loudspeaker and everyone on the plane applauded, even the millionaires.
The odds are, she said, at least one of those five soldiers we applauded on my return plane will suffer severe mental trauma from the war.
Fat Hawaii prays loudly as the world rushes close out the window, then applauds when the plane touches down safely.
On flights to certain parts of the world the magical thinking is so powerful that people applaud when the plane's wheels hit the runway.
But there is something almost as frightening: half-term Brits with their very loud children, hitting the dancefloor at 1am and applauding when their plane touches down, as if not dying in a fireball is a smashing treat.
A lot of people applauded the swimmers' extraction from the plane as if Brazil had won a gold medal in the Games.
Captain Shults was rightly applauded for her heroic maneuvers in landing the plane.
The West threw him under the bus and "applauded" the people who overthrew him before his plane touched down in Saudi Arabia.
