Sentence examples for land off course from inspiring English sources

Before everything is -- believe it or not -- happily resolved, the parachutists will land off course and find themselves in the clutches of a menacing hermit who offers to direct the father to civilization if he will leave behind the woman who jumped with him.

Witness Charles Thomson told the TV station the plane appeared to make a "perfectly normal landing" before veering off course.

Additionally, this Soyuz capsule was equipped with satellite phones and a global positioning satellite system -- courtesy of NASA -- so if the crew had landed off course and communications systems were damaged, as happened in May, they would still have been able to determine and phone in their location.

An airport built on a remote South Atlantic island by the British government – at the cost £285m of public money – cannot be used because planes landing there are blown off course, Whitehall's spending watchdog has found.

The vessel was blown off course and landed in Normandy.

He says that one day in the 1950's a ferry captain dozed at the wheel, drifted off course and landed in Western Australia.

According to Eiríks saga rauða ("Erik the Red's Saga"), while returning to Greenland in about 1000, Leif was blown off course and landed on the North American continent, where he observed forests with excellent building timber and grapes, which led him to call the new region Vinland ("Land of Wine").

They must cope with engine failures, seized-up landing gear, winds that hound them off course.

On our left, the wind wash from jets landing at La Guardia almost blows us off course.

A financial journal once told the story of the balloonist who was blown off course and, upon landing, asked a passerby where he was.

Landing at Princeton did nothing to put him off course.