Sentence examples for ditch planes from inspiring English sources

One, it is a lot easier to ditch planes and leases on gates at airports when an airline is in bankruptcy and can essentially renege on a host of obligations.

The report says information known about the plane's final movements and activity, demonstrate there was no attempt by pilots to deliberately ditch the plane in the ocean: "This evidence is... inconsistent with a controlled ditching scenario".

Ditch the plane for the train and travel Europe with a clear conscience.

One, Hubert Latham, was forced to ditch his plane in the Channel after its engine failed.

Mr. Best was captured in 1941 after he was forced to ditch his plane off the coast of Greece.

Though she and her co-pilot had to ditch their plane, American Girl, two-thirds of the way across, Elder's pioneering spirit made her famous.

The fuselage came to rest partly in a tributary of the Volga River; it was unclear whether the pilot, having encountered an emergency during takeoff, had tried to ditch the plane in the water but struck the riverbank instead.

The passengers were saved only by the skill of the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, who managed to ditch the plane safely in the Hudson river.At the moment, attempts to deal with the problem mostly involve efforts to cull flocks of the larger species geese in particular in the vicinity of airports, and also the use of bird scarers to try to drive off those actually sitting near runways.

Most likely all those "lost" fly-boys and sailors simply ditched their planes or abandoned their ships and headed straight for the beach, ordered up a couple of rum punches and never looked back.

The occupants of Flight 1549 are alive because the flight crew prepared for the foreseeable but highly unlikely consequences of a flock of geese flying into the plane's engines, and the cabin crew prepared for the more foreseeable but still very unlikely need to ditch the plane in water.

It was twice during such times that he had to ditch his plane in the Pacific and be rescued.