Sentence examples for shoot the plane from inspiring English sources
"Did I shoot the plane to be jailed?" she had asked the president months before the photo incident – and the president had narrated this at the private meeting.
Gen. Paul Aussaresses wrote in his memoir, "The Battle for the Casbah" (2002), that the Army had originally ordered fighter planes to shoot the plane down but called them off at the last minute when it was discovered that the DC-3's pilot and crew were French.
Making money in the airline business has always been tough — Warren Buffett has said that if capitalists had been present at the Wright brothers' first flight they would have been well advised to shoot the plane down — but the years following 9/11, in which the industry lost more than thirty billion dollars and several airlines filed for bankruptcy, were especially brutal.
Shoot the planes while they're far away.
Egypt plane crash: What we know so far The Egyptian terrorist group Wilayat Sinai, which allies itself with Isis, said it shot the plane out of the sky "in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land".
In a later call, apparently from the crash site, another man says that Cossack militiamen have shot the plane down and that it was a passenger airliner.
Now it's about finding out who shot the plane down, as most of the [other] stuff has already been settled".
In recent days, he said, the families have been called by a man who said that he knows the identity of the terrorist who shot the plane down.
Wilayat Sinai, an Egyptian jihadist group allied to Isis, has claimed responsibility for the crash, saying it shot the plane out of the sky "in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land".
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said that even if this was the case, shooting the plane down was an extreme over-reaction and looked like a pre-planned provocation.
Rebels in Ukraine deny accusations from the West that they shot the plane down with a missile.
