Sentence examples for sinking airliner from inspiring English sources
He rushed to the sinking airliner and was among the first rescuers on the scene, the only private boater to pull several passengers to safety.
Despite being pushed out of Afghanistan, it has since killed a busload of German tourists at a synagogue in Tunisia, tried to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic, come close to sinking a French ("Christian", said its communiqué) oil tanker and claimed credit for a miscellany of multiple murders in numerous countries.
So when Wolchak was informed minutes later that it was a commercial airliner carrying more than 100 passengers who were possibly still trapped inside the sinking aircraft, she realized the case would be anything but business as usual.
Faced with the prospect of economic and political turmoil in the event of further conflict, it avoided taking substantial action after it accused Pyongyang of sinking a South Korean ship in which forty-six sailors died in March, and over the years it has put up with the bombing of a civilian airliner, two assassination attempts on the president, and incursions by submarines.
His popularity sank, and kept on sinking.
And they keep sinking and sinking.
The armed forces' chief, General Wiranto, proposed a "civilian militia" to reinforce the police.See article: Indonesia's mob militiaGunboats from the Sri Lankan navy sank a boat belonging to the Tamil Tigers off the country's northern coast.In Thailand an airliner crashed into a swamp while trying to land during a rainstorm.
