Sentence examples for sinking airplane from inspiring English sources
To think that Sully singlehandedly persuaded 155 strangers -- united only by their destination and desire to live -- to follow instructions and escape a sinking airplane in less than 5 minutes is remarkable.
They bring their own boats to pull strangers off rooftops, or rescue them from airplanes sinking in the Hudson River.
But without the blind fluorescent creatures floating in a circle around the black box which along with tremendous thunder and huge shards of metal from the airplane sank down and settled here where it rests, cheerfully beeping.
In October 1944 and April 1945, U.S. carrier-based airplanes sank the Musashi and Yamato; more than any other event, these marked the end of the long reign of the battleship.
In other parts of the world, of course, elevator cables were snapping, airplanes were crashing, ships were sinking, motor vehicles were breaking their axles, bridges were collapsing, and on and on.
Her fate is officially unknown, but sources report that may have struck a mine or been sunk by a Russian airplane.
He claimed that the airplane had rendered the battleship obsolete and, over the vociferous protests of the Navy Department, carried his point in 1921 and 1923 by sinking several captured and overage battleships from the air.
MOSCOW — Russia's chief arms exporter said Friday that his company was shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships if the United States or other nations try to intervene to halt the country's spiral of violence.
Meanwhile, the F.A.A. in Westbury, N.Y., used a radar tracking system to check for the presence of airplanes in the area around the Hudson River when the witnesses said the plane sank.
