Sentence examples for plane to rescue from inspiring English sources

Hickey is dispatched in a small plane to rescue her.

In 1975, the Daily Mail's legendary editor Sir David English chartered a plane to rescue Vietnamese orphans — some hailed his imaginative compassion, others called it a compassion-kidnap.

And when, in the spring of 1979, Idi Amin found that he could no longer resist a tide of homegrown rebels and the Tanzanian military, it was Qaddafi who sent a plane to rescue Uganda's self-proclaimed Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and shuttled him to a villa on the sands of Tripoli.

You dream that you are trapped between the army and the snipers and then your dad flies in on a plane to rescue you, and you recall this happily as one of your nice dreams if you are five and, when you wake up, the snipers are real.

A couple of New City police detectives selflessly entered the plane to rescue some passengers who were still inside, while their police scuba diver colleagues dropped from a helicopter high above to pull some passengers from the icy cold water.

Meanwhile, Superman is attempting to minimize the destruction in Metropolis caused by the growth of the new landmass when Richard arrives in a sea plane to rescue Lois and Jason from the sinking yacht.

China said Monday that it had sent four military transport planes to rescue the remaining 1,000 of some 30,000 of its people who were there before the crisis.

TRIPOLI, Libya — As wealthier nations send boats and planes to rescue their citizens from the violence in Libya, a new refugee crisis is taking shape on the outskirts of Tripoli, where thousands of migrant workers from sub-Saharan Africa have been trapped with scant food and water, no international aid and little hope of escape.

When the mayor declares an emergency quarantine and sends every dog to a tiny spot of land called Trash Island, his 12-year-old ward Atari Kobayashi breaks the travel ban and steals a plane to go rescue his pup Spots from the maggot-infested hellhole.

In January 1982 he introduced a government employee, Lenny Skutnik, who that month had jumped into the icy Potomac River after a plane crash to rescue a drowning woman, as representative of "the spirit of American heroism at its finest".

People of faith gave sacrificially in the immediate aftermath of the plane crashes, trying to rescue those in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, trying to subdue the aggressors on the plane over Pennsylvania, and reaching out to neighbors and strangers alike on that apocalyptic day.