Sentence examples for down the jet from inspiring English sources

Kiev officials said rebels had let off a rocket-propelled grenade by mistake while trying to shoot down the jet.

Yes, just days after the crash, UK and US intelligence agencies strongly suggested that a bomb had brought down the jet; an "insider threat" attack.

Then, Turkey spoke of its "rage" at the decision to shoot down the jet, which was on a training flight testing its own country's radar systems.

But speaking to BBC News, Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said that Isis's claim to have brought down the jet at 35,000ft was "propaganda", and said the area of Sinai in question was under government forces' "full control".

Intringuingly, the Ukrainian ambassador to London, Volodymyr Vassylenko, denied yesterday that a naval officer named Igor Larichev - said in French wire reports on Thursday to have admitted that missiles brought down the jet - had ever existed.

It is strongly suspected that a Russian missile system was used to down the jet.

Indianapolis preserved a fourth-quarter lead by using pressure to shut down the Jets' offense.

And if both Bollinger and Testaverde were to go down, the Jets have a new third-string quarterback in waiting.

As the name suggests, a no-fly zone would raise the possibility of being forced to shoot down the jets of the Syrian regime, potentially dragging Washington into a conflict on two fronts while still fighting the jihadists of Isis.

It was the end of the first half and the score was 20-0 Dolphins, a battering that didn't come close to reflecting the true nature of the beat down the Jets were undergoing.

According to Dutch investigators, pro-Russian rebels – or Russian soldiers – downed the jet by mistake, using a Buk missile system smuggled across the Russian border.