Sentence examples for orders to descend from inspiring English sources

Fourteen seconds before the crash, the investigators said, air traffic controllers recorded orders to descend that were apparently barked out by the system aboard the Boeing.

But the Russian pilot followed a Swiss controller's urgent order to descend.

We were to hold onto a series of ropes in order to descend to a protected area about 70 feet underwater, where we would watch the sharks feeding.

According to some commentators, this Jesus asked Judas to release him from the human form he had assumed in order to descend to earth.

We have the work of historians citing the existence of an Arab SS legion waiting, at the rear guard of Rommel's army, for the order to descend on the Yishuv in order to exterminate the 500,000 Jews who had already settled there.

In response, Uribe ordered troops to descend upon them as well.

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.

He then intentionally modified the autopilot instructions to order the aeroplane to descend until it collided with the terrain.

But in a moment of confusion, the traffic controller in Zurich ordered the Russian plane to "descend level 350, expedite descent" -- a direct and urgent order to drop from an altitude of 36,000 feet to 35,000 feet.

It was not until about 50 seconds before the crash that Swiss controllers ordered the Russian plane to descend.

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