Sentence examples for captain of flight from inspiring English sources

John Ogonowski, the fair-haired, clean-cut captain of Flight 11, was also on his way to Logan.

Passengers said the captain of Flight 191 was acting erratically outside the cockpit and could be heard shouting about Al Qaeda and bombs being aboard.

Edward States, the captain of Flight 587, was remembered first as a husband, a father of two boys, a Cub Scout leader, a Little League coach and a Sunday-school teacher.

B7 ARLINGTON BURIAL FOR PILOT -- The Secretary of the Army reversed course, granting burial rights at Arlington National Cemetery for Charles F. Burlingame, who served 25 years in the Navy and was the captain of Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

The Captain of Flight 159 did not follow procedure and announce V1 speed, so the copilot assumed that the aircraft had not yet reached that threshold and attempted to abort, when in reality it had substantially exceeded it.

The captain of #SichuanAirlines flight 3U8633, Liu Chuanjian, made an emergency landing after the windshield shattered, similar to #BritishAirways flight 5390 in 1990 pic.twitter.com/uGmES6t2V7.

The pilot, captain of the flight deck, was a woman.

The captain of the flight had asked if there were any medics on board.

Once, I was recognized by the captain of a flight I was on.

"I was screaming and sobbing until the captain of the flight ordered me off the plane," he said.

SullenbergerThat would be Chesley Sullenberger, the captain of US Airways Flight 1549, who piloted his plan to a safe landing in the Hudson River after flying birds gummed up an engine.