Sentence examples for pilot claims from inspiring English sources

An airline pilot claims his aircraft experienced a near-miss with a rugby ball-shaped UFO near London's Heathrow Airport.

An EgyptAir pilot claiming to have information about the crash of the airline's Flight 990 last year has requested asylum in Britain, EgyptAir officials said today.

The press first coined the term "flying saucer" after this Idaho pilot claimed he had seen a string of nine shiny, saucer-shaped objects flying at supersonic speeds near Mount Rainier, Washington.

In April, a pilot claimed his British Airways Airbus A320 had been hit by a drone as it came in to land at Heathrow, although the then transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin later told MPs the incident was unlikely to have been a collision with a drone.

The pilot claimed that his company, Fly Key West (a company not listed in the Florida Division of Corporations), advertised such escapades and that because anonymity was guaranteed and the couple spoke only Spanish, he never knew the full names of those on board.

And at last year's congress, a retired pilot claimed that "jumbo planes" fitted with "ancient Indian radar systems" made in India achieved interplanetary travel 7000 years ago.

However, no Mosquito pilot claimed an aerial victory that night.

No other pilot claimed as many Western Allied aircraft as Marseille.

(The pilot claimed he was snapping photos of a friend's nearby house).

After receiving its new aircraft, the squadron was tasked with anti-shipping attacks, and it and No. 100 Squadron cooperated in an attack on a Japanese convoy near Cape St . Georgeon the night of 20 October during which a No. 6 Squadron pilot claimed to have damaged a cruiser.

German intelligence suggested that the RAF was down to just 300 serviceable fighters on 17 August 1940, taking into consideration German pilots' claims and their estimates of British production capabilities.