Sentence examples for pilot attempts from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
Now imagine this scenario repeating itself when your pilot attempts to land in any EU country, or in Japan, or India because each country has a different set of aviation safety regulations and best practices.
A pilot attempting a soft landing would have extended the wing flaps.
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.
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.
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.
The pilot attempted an evasive roll but was unable to clear the oncoming airliner.
