Sentence examples for flight officials from inspiring English sources

During the flight, officials frantically seek to have calls patched through to colleagues, often referred to by codenames, to let them know what's happening.

The crew member in the incident, which was in the final days before a mission, was subsequently cleared for the flight, officials said.

At least one other person who was scheduled to be onboard was apparently missing and may have missed the flight, officials said.

The Philippine foreign affairs secretary died Sunday in a hospital in Taiwan after falling ill during a flight, officials and family members said.

According to Bridges, the man is a doctor and told flight officials he was due for a shift at his hospital.

THE FEDERAL Communications Commission may permit airlines to experiment with allowing passengers to use cellphones in flight, officials said last week.

But in his 2001 autobiography, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., a top NASA flight official, confirmed the true reason.

Top-flight officials have been granted the power to halt or even abandon games in the face of discriminatory behaviour from fans following a series of racist incidents.

He argued that top-flight officials went off to the high-prestige departments such as the foreign office, leaving education in the hands of the also-rans: "Able people have worked there, but on average the quality has not been commensurate with the importance of the work". The problem, however, surely goes deeper than a mere shortage of managerial flair.

On Thursday, stepping up its reconnaissance over Iraq, the United States had 34 piloted and unmanned flights, officials said, double the number of such flights on Tuesday.

In some hours last summer, there were 95 scheduled flights, officials said, and more than 105 would have been scheduled next summer without this agreement.