Sentence examples for cockpit about from inspiring English sources

The trouble flared in the cockpit about 3 1/2 hours after takeoff, while the plane was over the western Oklahoma panhandle.

And they'll do all that in a tiny cockpit – about the size of a family car, storing all of their supplies and support systems.

Mr. Goto said that readings aboard the All Nippon flight showed the battery's voltage stayed relatively stable at 31 volts, just under the maximum voltage, until pilots detected a strange smell in the cockpit about 15 minutes after takeoff.

Ms. Tkachova recalled one white-knuckled take-off when flight attendants, posted in the aisles and looking out the windows, periodically called out updates to the cockpit about ice forming on the wings.

On Monday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, controllers said an Alaska Airlines 737 had taken off on the wrong runway; safety officials are investigating whether the problem was confusion between the tower and the cockpit about which runway had been assigned.

La Paloma charters tiny planes to fly between San José and a rural airstrip, and our 45-minute flight left us with faces almost as white as the capuchin monkeys' thanks to a piercing alarm that sounded in the open cockpit about a minute after takeoff.

Mr. Commey also spent part of his time in the cockpit speaking about cloning.

The cockpit had about two dozen different keypads with smaller push pads attached to those, a few levers, a bunch of things to pull, a viewing screen, and a lot of lights.

The cockpit had about two dozen different key pads with smaller push pads attached to those, a few levers, a bunch of things to pull, a viewing screen, and a lot of lights.

As mundane cockpit conversations about weather and fuel were interrupted by shrill alarms, audience tension increased.

The memory units inside the recorders can provide key data, including the last conversations inside the cockpit, information about auto-pilot mode or even smoke alarms.