Sentence examples for mechanical malfunction in from inspiring English sources

A mechanical malfunction in the stadium's retractable roof resulted in one panel crashing into another, postponing Thursday's game.

The error in vote tabulation might be caused by a mechanical malfunction in the operation of the vote counting system, but the error might also result from the failure of a properly functioning mechanical system to discern the choices of the voters as revealed by the ballots.

The accident was caused by a mechanical malfunction in the nose wheel doors preventing them from closing during landing on water, resulting in the aircraft sinking.

Due to a mechanical malfunction, the plane crashes in a terrible storm and Whitaker makes a miraculous landing after flying upside down, dumping the planes gasoline and putting out fires in the engines.

Two of them, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, had been crushed in a mechanical malfunction; city rules forbade black employees to seek shelter from rain anywhere but in the back of their compressor trucks, with the garbage.

Disruption of the normal structure of the elastic fibers (such as their apparent fragmentation and aggregation into the ELS as seen here) would be expected to result in severe mechanical malfunction of the lung (decreased compliance) together with a reduced capability for normal gas exchange.

You can inspect for 10 hours prior to every time you turn on the key but that doesn't mean that something won't happen that day or the next day in terms of a mechanical malfunction".

"The plane is ours, and if it did violate U.S. airspace, it was only because of a mechanical malfunction," said Ricardo Alday, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington.

Whether it was the most dangerous moment or not, the weather-rocket scare was one of hundreds of incidents after 1945 when accident, miscommunication, human error, mechanical malfunction, or some combination of glitches nearly resulted in the detonation of nuclear weapons.

A mechanical malfunction such as a light tower failure results in a suspension.

Shorter trains also require shorter sections of so-called refuge tracks, on which a train can pull out of the way in the case of a mechanical malfunction or for scheduling reasons.