Sentence examples for jet heading from inspiring English sources

An American F-16 fighter jet heading for a patrol over northern Iraq crashed in Turkey.

In January 2010, an Ethiopian Airways passenger jet heading for Addis Ababa crashed into the sea after taking off from Beirut.

Given that Lucy Kirkwood's recent hit Chimerica featured a key scene on a jumbo jet heading to Beijing – and was playing in London at the same time as an adaptation of Strangers on a Train, which starts in a steam locomotive compartment – theatre directors have collected the full set of transportation methods in the title of the 1987 Steve Martin film, Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Thirty hours later, his heart was in a Lear jet headed for Kentucky.

One story put them on a state-owned jet headed for Washington.

A jet headed toward J.F.K. Then a smudge banked above them.

Two weeks earlier, on Christmas Day 2009, a young Nigerian tried to blow up a jet headed for Detroit with a bomb sewn into his underwear.

In CBS's "Mayday," which has its premiere on Sunday night, passengers board their plane, an American supersonic jet headed for Tokyo, all smiles.

Ukraine tacitly admitted that its military had accidentally downed a Russian passenger jet headed from Tel Aviv to Siberia last week, killing all 78 people on board.

"In Russia, nobody is guaranteed against becoming a beggar or a prisoner," he said, in an interview aboard his Gulfstream jet, headed to a campaign event in Togliatti, in central Russia.

"I gave the instructions that we'd authorize our pilots to take it out," he says, referring to the jet headed to Washington that crashed in a Pennsylvania field.