It is very hard today, for instance, if not impossible, to fly an American jetliner into a mountain, because satellites can tell a crew where the plane is even when visibility is zero.
Central Asian countries Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, at the northern end of the search arc, said no unidentified planes had entered their air space on March 8: "Even if all on-board equipment is switched off, it is impossible to fly through in a silent mode," the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee said in a statement sent to Reuters.
"Even if all on-board equipment is switched off, it is impossible to fly through in a silent mode," Serik Mukhtybayev, deputy head of the Kazakh Civil Aviation Committee, said in a statement.
Suddenly it's impossible to fly anywhere in the country without a flight attendant warning you about exploding phones.
That means it is almost impossible to fly from one Wyoming city to another on a commercial airliner without leaving the state.
Tucker argues that a kite made of the kind of handkerchief that would have been available (a thirty-inch square of lingerie-thin silk), dragging a standard chunky key of the time (a quarter-pound brass latchkey), would have been nearly impossible to fly in the first place, especially if you were trying to keep it aloft from inside a shed — you can't get the key out and up.
For such people, he said at a party last week to officially start the airline, "it's impossible to fly commercial".
Many military jets would now be impossible to fly if pilots had to rely on mechanical controls alone.
Sunny days don't work (too many shadows), and snowstorms get in the way (it's impossible to fly).
