Sentence examples for monitoring the plane from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The new information changes the estimated time of other incidents in the confusing moments before the crash, but it does not solve the central mystery: why there was a breakdown in procedure in the Zurich air traffic control center, which was monitoring the two planes.

Nato partners of the Baltic states, including the UK, have military jets on an air policing mission in the region, monitoring the Russian planes.