Sentence examples for jet attack from inspiring English sources

The observatory said it was the first reported instance of a fighter jet attack in Damascus airspace, where the military had previously used helicopter gunships.

Although Indian Point's owner asserts that its 3.5-foot-thick concrete containment domes could survive a jumbo jet attack, the engines could penetrate up to six feet of reinforced concrete.

Other notable Grumman naval aircraft included the small, long-range, twin-engine A-6 Intruder jet attack aircraft (operational in 1963) and the twin-turboprop E-2 Hawkeye (1964), the first aircraft to be designed specifically for airborne early-warning surveillance.

On that Sunday, men were puffing on water pipes in a palm-shaded park, children playing between the flowerbeds and couples chatting demurely on benches as the unmistakable thunderclap of high explosive rippled through the air a few miles away: 10 children had died in a jet attack on a civilian area of Qaboun.

Struggling to choose a new mayor precisely two weeks after a terrorist jet attack devastated the World Trade Center, New York City Democrats yesterday apparently extended the primary contest an additional 16 days by sending two candidates, Mark Green and Fernando Ferrer, into a runoff for their party's nomination, according to a survey of voters leaving the polls.

American officials have contradicted much of the original Peruvian military account, saying the crew members of the American surveillance plane, a Cessna Citation jet owned by the United States Air Force, had raised numerous objections as they watched the Peruvian jet attack the missionaries' aircraft.

A Peruvian Air Force A-37 fighter jet attacked their pontoon plane, mistaking it for a drug flight.

In fact, an American fighter jet attacked a missile defense battery today near Mosul, in northern Iraq.

Later, an American fighter jet attacked a suspected insurgent post in Falluja, the latest in a series of almost daily airstrikes by the Marines.

At least nine Palestinians were killed in F-16 fighter jet attacks on Nablus and Ramallah, and a sixth Israeli, an army officer, was killed in his car on a West Bank road.

A8 Findings in Peru Plane Incident An American surveillance plane crew tried to warn a Peruvian Air Force fighter before the jet attacked a plane carrying a missionary family, American officials said, citing tape recordings.