Sentence examples for identified the plane from inspiring English sources

Thailand's Thai Rath newspaper identified the plane as a Russian-made Antonov AN-74.

Alison Duquette, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, identified the plane as a Cessna 337 registered to Jack Air of Wilmington, Del.

Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, identified the plane as an Emivest SJ30 aircraft and said it had reported a mechanical problem after taking off from Fletcher Field in Lyon, just outside Clarksdale.

A C.I.A. surveillance aircraft mistakenly identified the plane as a drug-smuggling aircraft, and a Peruvian military jet shot it down, killing an American missionary and her 7-month-old daughter.

William Casey, head of the CIA, told Reagan that his department's analysts had concluded that the Soviet fighter pilot never positively identified the plane as civilian, but the president ignored this, preferring to denounce Moscow for committing "a crime against humanity".

Airbus identified the plane's serial number as 535, and said it was sending a team of specialists to the Comoros.

The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and local media sources said that it was a drone.

A White House official asked the small pool of reporters in the back of the plane to keep their cellphones off because the signals could allow someone to identify the plane's position.

But Univision, the Spanish-language network, relying on reports from the Dominican Republic, was among the first to identify the plane as an Airbus, not a 767 as other networks had reported, and to report that the plane had been headed for Santo Domingo.

Also, a plane may need to be assigned a "squawk" code by air traffic controllers, which the pilot is given over the radio and has to dial into the transponder, so that the local secondary radar system knows what "address", if you like, to use when identifying the plane and its transponder.

The dashed magenta line identifies the plane of panel (b).