Sentence examples for debris struck from inspiring English sources

Debris struck him on the face.

As the air filled with dust, debris struck and decapitated a fleeing worker.

The cameras showed that some 80 seconds after Columbia blasted off on Jan . 16 debris struck the orbiter's left wing.

Police officers shot and killed the gunman, but in the process, their stray bullets, fragments of bullets and flying chunks of debris struck nine bystanders.

Flying debris struck several people in the central business district and subway stations around the territory were converted into temporary shelters to accommodate dozens of stranded passengers.

Columbia was damaged during liftoff when a piece of debris struck one of its wings, creating a hole that caused the shuttle to break up on its way back to earth.

Tesla in 2014 had to reinforce the area protecting the batteries in its Model S after it became apparent that road debris striking the bottom of the car could cause a fire.

The investigation board determined that the shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven were lost during re-entry on Feb. 1 because of undetected damage from debris striking a wing on liftoff.

Thankfully, the space debris sailed cleanly by and to date no catastrophic debris strike has taken place.

In the agency's eyes, "there were no safety-of-flight issues," and no safety compromises in the long history of debris strikes on the thermal protection system.

On Jan . 24 eight days into the mission, engineers and managers held a series of meetings in which the debris strike was discussed.