Sentence examples for monitor the plane from inspiring English sources

But the event was apparently serious enough for the White House's situation room to monitor the plane, according to The Associated Press.

Nor is it likely that the device would have been confiscated at security; Mr. Carbone said he had carried one aboard passenger flights to monitor the plane's progress, like a video game.

We need the reassurance of omnipresent security personnel monitoring the plane who know how to protect us.

The misdirected descent was immediately corrected by an air traffic controller monitoring the plane's course, said Jack Barker, a regional spokesman for the aviation agency.

Two hours and 10 minutes into the flight, the computers controlling the flight switched off the autopilot after becoming confused by conflicting speed readings, caused by the icing up of pitot tubes monitoring the plane's velocity.

Each centre is responsible for a defined geographic area; as an aircraft continues on a flight, crossing these areas, the responsibility for monitoring the plane is transferred ("handed off") to the next air route centre.

WASHINGTON — The air traffic controller monitoring the plane that hit a helicopter over the Hudson River last Saturday did not warn its pilot about traffic ahead, including the helicopter, and at the time had "initiated a nonbusiness-related phone call," the National Transportation Safety Board said on Friday.

The air traffic controller monitoring the plane that collided with a helicopter over the Hudson River on Aug. 8, killing nine, joked on the telephone about barbecuing a dead cat just minutes before the crash, an official with knowledge of the investigation said on Wednesday.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino declared on television that his forces were monitoring the plane and had ordered it to descend shortly after it took off from an airstrip that was hidden in Apure State, which borders Colombia to the west.

When NORAD pilots had to return to base ― which a spokesman told the AP was because of both darkness and because the pilots were getting too close to Mexican air space ― the Coast Guard took over monitoring the plane using tracking software.

The Defense Ministry merely said it had identified and monitored the planes, while the Foreign Ministry stressed that the zone was purely defensive and offered to strengthen communications with other regional players to maintain peace and security.