Sentence examples for mechanical fault from inspiring English sources

Aviation experts have said there is little chance that a mechanical fault was responsible.

Our overland journey pauses on tenterhooks, this time not through human or mechanical fault but through the ravages of nature.

Most suspect a mechanical fault in the haggard military Buffalo aircraft, though other, more sinister, theories persist.

Finding the black boxes could reveal whether a mechanical fault, a hijacking or a bomb caused the disaster.

It is not known whether a mechanical fault or human error caused the failure of the second take-off.

And if a plane has a mechanical fault, that could be seen as being within the airline's control.

A mechanical fault, caused by a combination of wear and cold and wet weather, Toyota believes, means that the accelerator pedal sometimes sticks down.

But the Egyptian government is pressing the theory that the plane, a Boeing 767, developed a mechanical fault in its tail.

Against that, other hiccups involving inconsistent weather, mechanical faults and the voiding of some standing-only tickets on safety grounds, were minor.

The safety board report refers to an inspection of the wrecked bus, three days after the accident, that found 21 mechanical faults, including 10 that could not be readily attributed to the crash.

One is "wheel clocking"—recording a long sequence of spins in the hopes of identifying a roulette wheel that has developed mechanical faults and imbalances severe enough to distort the distribution of winning numbers.