Sentence examples for pilot attempting from inspiring English sources
A pilot attempting a soft landing would have extended the wing flaps.
In its articles, Paris Match and Bild described the sound of screaming passengers and that of metallic banging, possibly that of the pilot attempting to open the cockpit door with a heavy object.
And since we're talking about ridiculous charges placed on teenagers, let's not forget Tomayo McDuffy, the Philadelphia teen who is facing charges of attempted murder -- among others -- because his blind, mentally-ill next door neighbor said he broke into her three story row home and turned on the stove without lighting the pilot, attempting to kill her by poison.
The Russian pilot attempting to be the first to fly around the Arctic circle in a lightweight helicopter has been found "alive and well," after he was forced to land on water during the Iqaluit-to-Greenland leg of the trip.
In November 1996, an Ethiopian airlines 767 crashed in the sea off the Comoros Islands, in the Indian ocean, killing 125 people on board after the pilot attempted to land while being hijacked.
A clergyman's daughter (energetically portrayed by Maxine Peake), having abandoned her lawyer husband and comfortable life for the love of a feckless former fighter pilot, attempts suicide because she cannot cope with the complexity of this socially unacceptable and unsatisfactorily reciprocated love.
There had been speculation that the pilot attempted to land in bad weather under instruction from the president; the investigation provided no direct evidence for this claim.A sawing achievementIn what was billed as the biggest commercial forest-preservation agreement in history, environmental advocates and timber companies struck a deal to protect 72m hectares of forests in Canada.
A DC-9 aircraft carrying 53 persons crashed and broke apart in a field, apparently as the pilot attempted to make a crash landing in a nearby swamp; a nine-year-old girl, who was pushed out of the plane by her mother and landed on a soft pile of seaweed some 9 m (30 ft) from the wreckage, was the only survivor.
Mike Flint, Warren Buffet's former pilot, attempted something similar to Voska at one point.
It had been snowing in Munich and when the pilot attempted to take off for a third time the plane over-shot the runway.
In a dive recovery maneuver, the pilot attempts to return the aircraft to level flight at an airspeed such that level flight can be maintained afterward.
