Sentence examples for failed flight from inspiring English sources

The official insisted, however, that the monkey had survived the journey and that Iran was not trying to cover up a failed flight.

HOI AN, VIETNAM — After the war and failed flight overseas, after her father's persecution and the knowledge of hunger, it was the miracle of the crispy pancake that changed things for Trinh Diem Vy.

Lost on Thursday's failed flight was the six-tonne Express-AM4R satellite, which was to be used to deliver broadband internet across Russia.

The Count of Provence and his wife fled to the Austrian Netherlands in conjunction with the royal family's failed Flight to Varennes in June 1791.

It began, really, back in 1973 when he witnessed the failed flight of a model rocket meticulously constructed by his father.

The boy was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean last November clinging to an inner tube after his mother took him along in her failed flight from Cuba.

But sometimes, when all else fails, flights end up being cadged from frankly unsavoury jet-owners.

A $105,000 fine was proposed over accusations of operating 13 flights in April 2000 without doing maintenance on an engine that failed in flight.

NTSB investigators found that the pilot, who survived, had previously failed nine flight checks but was still allowed to fly; in January NTSB criticized the FAA for failing to ground him.

Separately, a United Airlines 787 was also diverted in December after one of six electrical generators failed in flight.

Until we know which parts, if any, failed on Flight 447, it is impossible to know which other planes might be at risk.