Sentence examples for delayed landing from inspiring English sources

Nearly everything that could go wrong did, starting with a delayed landing by the force attacking the main waterfront, code-named Red and White Beaches.

It was soon quite obvious that, because of our delayed landing, there was no possibility of us reaching our target that day.

Four people were killed when an airplane whose pilot delayed landing at a Sierra airport because of a low cloud cover crashed 10 miles away.

Eastern time, though problems like rain, low clouds over the landing strip or high winds can cause mission managers to delay landing or put it off to a second day.

A thunderstorm in North Carolina forced the plane carrying Vice President Joe Biden to delay landing for more than 30 minutes.

Speaking to journalists in Colombo, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said "ninety five percent of Internally Displaced People (IDP) have been resettled and there is no need to delay land registration" in the North and East.

Hundreds of soccer fans missed the World Cup semi-final between Germany and Spain yesterday after chaos at the airport in Durban delayed their landing or forced planes to turn back, local media reported.

Drawing on the only tsunami data available, captured by a GPS tracking system set up 12 miles offshore, researchers used computer modeling to conclude that the breakwater had done its job: it had reduced the height of the first wave by 40 percent, delayed its landing by six minutes and saved countless lives.

The reinforced division was intended to attack again but on 19 June a storm descended upon the English Channel, which delayed the landing of supplies and further British attacks were postponed.

Like that hospital, many recovery projects have lingered on the drawing board or gotten delayed by land and ideological disputes, logistical and contracting problems, staffing shortages and even weather.

1.35pm: Here in delayed reality land, we've just seen the sixth over, where Sehwag edged Broad over the head of both Prior and Shah at first slip, with each of them gorping accusatorily at one another and watching the ball fly past them as if a cartoon goalkeeper beaten by a Hot Shot Hamish shot in Roy of the Rovers.