Sentence examples for plane breaking down from inspiring English sources

Both Kerry and Clinton have often had the humbling experience of the plane breaking down: a blown tire, a leak in an auxiliary fuel tank, "electronic problems".

As if the Bruins did not have enough problems in Toronto, their plane broke down.

On the way back from Amsterdam after playing Ajax their plane broke down.

While we were in Cairo, the General's plane broke down.

One of the Boeing C-17 Globemasters, hailed by David Cameron yesterday as "our most advanced and capable transport plane", broke down a few minutes later in Paris, en route to Africa.

Alas, the plane broke down over the Atlantic, the journalists ended up at Shannon airport, calming their shattered nerves with a free bar, while an old drug bust meant two of the band were detained at the Canadian border.

The meetings are sacrosanct for the secretary: after her plane broke down in Saudi Arabia last month, a frantic Mrs. Clinton ditched her traveling press corps to flag down Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command who had been meeting with the Saudi king, for a ride home so that she would not miss her session with the president the next day.

Few plot details are known at this stage, but the screenplay is expected to involve a film star busy campaigning for an Oscar when his plane breaks down and he is given a ride to Hollywood on a rich stranger's private jet.

Immediately after I was discharged I took BART to the airport to fly to Glasgow, and the plane broke down during take off.

The media had made a joke of Kaczyński's planes always breaking down".

now to me come-say luckiest no-more-than plane break-down.