Sentence examples for make a distress from inspiring English sources
If something had gone wrong with the plane, he said, the pilots would probably have had enough time to make a distress call.
France's aviation regulator has said that the plane "did not itself make a distress call" during its eight-minute descent from cruising altitude.
Tony Cable, who was a senior investigator in the 2000 Concorde crash, the last large air disaster on French soil, said that if the pilots did not make a distress call during the descent, likely starting points for investigation would be either a loss of control, pilot confusion, or a combination of both.
Juveniles also make a distress call to alert their mothers if they are being threatened.
The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analyzing the flight recorders said on Monday.
"The aircraft did not itself make a distress call, but it was the combination of the loss of radio contact and the aircraft's descent that led the [air traffic] controller to implement the distress phase," a representative of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation said.
Those on board made a distress call to their families in Calais, according to a BBC reporter in Kent.
Neither pilot was in radio communication with an air traffic controller or an airport tower before the crash, and neither pilot made a distress call, Mr. Black said.
The ship made a distress call, and the Seychelles Coast Guard sent an aircraft to locate the pirates, according to a government statement.
Detective Sergeant Steve Seifried of the Pompton Lakes police said that the pilot made a distress call shortly before the crash, saying he was at 500 feet and having problems.
The children were aboard a 39-foot cabin cruiser named the Lady V, near the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memoriaboutidge, about 3 p.m. yesterday when someone made a distress call over the boat's VHF radio, the authorities said.
