Sentence examples for passenger ignored from inspiring English sources

Since Sept. 11, marshals have acted publicly only rarely, although on Nov. 12 marshals on a flight from Pittsburgh to Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington ordered a plane to land after a passenger ignored instructions to stay seated and walked toward the cockpit.

Steven Slater, a flight attendant who worked for twenty years dealing with the possibility of terrorists, a plane crash or, God help him, bad-mannered passengers, lost his temper after a female passenger ignored his instructions, prematurely retrieved her suitcase from the overhead compartment and hit him in the head with her bag.

She belted her heart out as train passengers ignored her completely.

The other passengers ignored the attendant's instructions and went about their day, meandering slowly and taking their time to gather bags, put on coats and perform other menial tasks.

Monday | Tuesday MondayMOST passengers ignore the earnest safety briefings given at the start of every flight.

Second, many passengers ignore bans on using mobile phones and other electronic devices during take-off and landing.

I received a postcard that was evidently from a pilot who shared this rather mischievous admission: "When passengers ignore the 'stay in your seats' sign, I create my own turbulence".

There is no recent survey of how often passengers ignore restrictions on use of their gadgets, though seven years ago, Mr. Strauss, then a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, monitored the signals emitted from cellphones during flights and discovered that they were being left on.

They use dramatic narratives like the story of an accomplished pilot who made a seemingly irrational decision that sent 584 passengers (and him) to their deaths or the Washington subway passengers who ignored the performance of a virtuoso violinist because they perceived him as a street musician.

Two years ago, Aircell, based in Itasca, Ill., and Louisville, Colo., paid $31 million to the federal government for a batch of air-to-ground spectrum that was originally used for in-flight seat-back phones –- an expensive service that passengers largely ignored.

The company also attempted to pass off the pilot as sick to their passengers and ignored the fact that they almost let a hammered-as-hell man fly them, presumably, into the nearest McDonald 'sfor a late night snack at several hundred miles an hour.