Sentences with phrase «about air crashes»

The Futenma base is surrounded by schools, hospitals and shops, and residents worry about air crashes.

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An air - rescue helicopter was summoned and was over the track about eight minutes after the crash.

The B - 2 hit the ground, tumbled and burned for a total loss worth about US$ 1.4 billion, reportedly, the most expensive crash in the history of the U.S. Air Force.

Nearly an hour later, as reports aired about the plane crash near Pittsburgh, Sheppard and seven teammates headed to an on - campus press conference that had been scheduled for weeks.

The crash of a NASA mission this week to monitor the flows of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a big blow to climate scientists hoping to learn more about the fate of CO2 streams in the air.

In the wake of recent airline crashes, major news networks have aired concerns about pilots» ability to accurately fly «by hand» when the airplane's cockpit automation systems fail.

NASA and the Joint Space Operations Center of U.S. Strategic Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., are keeping a close watch on the falling satellite, but will only be able to pinpoint its actual crash zone to within about 6,000 miles (10,000 km) about two hours before re-entry.

Even before the construction of Camp Century and the plane crash, military operations had impacts on Greenlanders: The entire Inuit village of Uummannaq was relocated in 1953 to make way for the construction of the Thule Air Base, about 240 kilometers west of Camp Century.

Just like the whole world, we were shocked and dismayed to hear about the tragic air plane crash that took the life of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people last April 10.

Ford is recalling about 850,000 cars and SUVs because of a problem that could stop the air bags from working in a crash.

A Chrysler Corp. minivan has achieved the best scores ever recorded for a van in the federal government's 13 - year - old crash test program, thanks in part to its driver's side air bag.The scores, recorded from instrumented test dummies aboard a Dodge Caravan run headlong into a concrete wall, also were better than those of most passenger cars.The 35 - mph test provides a basis for comparing vehicles, although critics point out that it indicates little about a vehicle's ability to protect passengers if it is struck in the side or rear.

The 2000 S80 was one of five midsized luxury cars that performed well in the institute's high - speed crash tests, but the research organization for auto insurers withheld its top rating from the S80 because of concerns about air bags.

As # 1 explained, you're more likely to hear about multiple car crashes every day than you do about a fatality in the air.

Among the many great ideas and anecdotes conveyed in the book Quantitative Value, one is about the crash of the B - 17 Flying Fortress during a test flight at Wright Air Field in Dayton, Ohio.

Patrick Smith, Author of Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel, shares his insight into the recent and tragic Colombia airline crash.

Patrick Smith, Active Airline Pilot, Air Travel Blogger, and Author of Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections, reviews the tragic crash of Malaysia Flight 370 and the many conspiracy theories which followed it.

Luckily their boat managed to make the jump over the set wave but poor old Tommy got launched about 6ft into the air coming crashing down into the bottom of the boat.

Fix for MCCE # 1366 - When placing a torch under water to reset / refill your air meter will often (about 50 % of the time) cause a crash.

I'm pleased to report that these framerate hiccups are pretty isolated, but I was less pleased to find a particular stage in Finland has a pretty huge bug — I crashed into a wall and my car was sent flinging miles into the air, displacing a huge amount of the track and causing some horrible results, as well as stopping me from progressing for about fifteen seconds (see picture).

However, the complaints about the iPad Air are pointing to a faulty screen and frequently crashing browser.