Sentence examples for hit aircraft from inspiring English sources

Newly posted videos on the Internet also showed what arms experts called the first known use by insurgents of heat-seeking shoulder-fired missile systems, designed to hit aircraft.

"They'll know what's not there, and I don't think it's possible to completely sanitise the site from any material debris that would have come from a missile hit, or rather a missile miss because these missiles are not designed actually to hit aircraft, they explode close to them".

They could even be launched far beyond Taiwan into the Pacific to hit aircraft-carriers.

The US-armed group claimed to have successfully hit the aircraft with an anti-tank missile.

They hit the aircraft with an RPG," a navy spokesman, Commander Salman Ali, said.

The airline is one of the hardest hit by aircraft overcapacity -- too many seats for too few passengers.

The strong winds linked to a tropical typhoon hit the aircraft as it descended to the airport.

A police spokesman said no shots had hit the aircraft and there had been no damage or casualties.

Now go and spend your £50m on someone who can hit an aircraft hangar door with a musical instrument of his choice.

With many of his Apaches, Chinooks, Hueys and Black Hawks flying daily, he said, "Now our crews are fresh when they hit that aircraft".

We can be sure that accidents will happen – driverless cars will crash; bugs will take down whole transport subsystems or the electricity grid; drones could hit passenger aircraft.