Sentence examples for issue a distress from inspiring English sources

Some crew members were horrified that he had taken so long to issue a distress call.

MH370 never did so; nor did crew issue a distress call.

Yet the pilot did not issue a distress call, and the the circumstances of the flight's final moments remain unclear.

The French aviation regulatory authority (DGAC) said the aircraft did not issue a distress call, as initially reported, but that its sudden drop in altitude had led air traffic controllers to implement the "distress phase".

A passenger on the boat used a mobile phone to issue a distress call early Thursday evening, the spokesman said, and rescue ships were immediately mobilized, but the moonless night made the search difficult.

It did not issue a distress signal.

The wooden boat issued a distress call early on Wednesday morning, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.

But the police said that within hours of taking off, he issued a distress call.

The Danish captain, Per Gravesen, issued a distress signal after failing to dislodge the ship.

The St. James Park, a chemical tanker bound from Spain to Thailand, issued a distress signal on Monday that it was being attacked in the Gulf of Aden.

A Russian news service reported that minutes after the first plane went down, the second jet issued a distress signal indicating it had been hijacked.