Sentence examples for much higher altitude from inspiring English sources

And jetliners headed to nearby Johnstown airport, where Mr. Peterson used to work refueling planes, generally approached at a much higher altitude, he said.

If an explosive decompression had been caused by a bomb that was planted on board, the plane would likely have disintegrated at a much higher altitude; as it was, it was tracked until it was relatively low.

They are wintered in bands, or flocks, of from 1,000 to 4,000 head at lower altitudes, and are moved in bands ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 head to summer range at much higher altitude, sometimes 300 miles (480 kilometres) from their winter quarters.

Cylindrical form of Au island was transformed into dome-shaped with a smaller half-width and much higher altitude.

It is clear from Fig. 6 that the F layer rose to a much higher altitude on 28 July 2014 compared to the rest of the month.

Thus, for the first time, the study group consisted DS region residents who were compared with a control group of individuals who live in the same desert area of southern Israel, but at a much higher altitude, above sea level and without the unique climate characteristics of the DS.

Organisms sought at much higher altitudes (up to 30,000 metres [100,000 feet]) have been detected; they are few in number and are all propagules.

Glaciers at much higher altitudes - particularly in the Himalayas and Alaska, where it was colder and global warming could increase snowfall - could grow in the short term and were likely to last "centuries", said Haeberli.

The Ukrainian authorities were condemned for keeping the airspace over eastern Ukraine open, despite evidence that planes had started to be shot down at much higher altitudes than before – in other words that there had been a change in the combatants' capability.

The antineutrons escape the atmosphere and then decay into antiprotons at much higher altitudes.

Planetary waves cannot propagate directly to much higher altitudes, but the stratosphere and mesosphere are closely connected via circulation and by GWs and tides.