Sentences with phrase «aircraft crashing into»

It should be as obvious as a pair of huge skyscrapers, aircraft crashing into them, igniting balls of flame, the murder of 3,000 people, followed by more than a decade of war, involving many countries, the descent of many countries into civil conflict, and the emergence of a brutal religious cult that posts videos of beheadings to the internet.

«Sully» is not a documentary, though when it departs from the melodrama of the actual flight including Sully's nightmare of an aircraft crashing into a New York skyscraper, we are left with testimony at a hearing, a kind of modern Caine Mutiny Court Martial, which appears headed to strip the man of his glory.

A modern nuclear power plant, for example, must withstand fires caused by aircraft crashing into it.

In the last part, Sikanen applied the methods that he had developed to the analysis of the impact of aircraft crashing into a nuclear power plant.

Now, Mulley and one other former OIG employee have come forth with allegations that the inspector general's office buried the critical Byron report and dropped an investigation into whether the NRC is relying on outdated methods to predict damage from an aircraft crashing into a plant.

Out of the Clear Blue Sky (Unrated) 9/11 documentary examining the fallout of the terrorist attack on Cantor Fitzgerald, a brokerage firm which lost 658 of its 960 employees when one of the hijacked aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower.

The mode starts with a cutscene showing your aircraft crash into a hostile area where you are going to start the mode.

After surviving a controlled landing / crash without landing gear, Zamperini and a handful of fellow soldiers (the most significant of which is Phil, played by Domhnall Gleeson's impressive American accent) go out on another mission that ends in less heroic fashion, as their aircraft crashes into the Pacific Ocean.

The mode starts with a cutscene showing your aircraft crash into a hostile area where you are going to start the mode.

Not exact matches

And on the US's southern border, drones and ultra-light aircraft have crashed, sometimes into people's homes, foiling drug - smuggling attempts.

By requiring users to register their drones the FAA hopes to curb a recent spate of close calls between drones and commercial aircraft as well as incidents like the recent high - profile crash of a photography drone into the stands at the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

The plane's intercommunications system failed, forcing the aircraft to crash into the Pacific Ocean, two miles off Port Reyes.

«This is a concerning rate,» Dedrone CEO Jorg Lamprecht told CNBC, «especially in light of international incidents where drones have crashed into other aircraft, and been used by terrorists, and used in other illicit activities.»

Think about it if 20 + Americans had hijacked an aircraft and crashed them into the Mosque in Mecca, do you honestly think the Saudi Arabians would have said anyone other then America was @ fault?

The Boeing MD - 83 aircraft was carrying 153 passengers and crew when it crashed into a densely - populated area in the north of Lagos and burst into flames.

The crash - landing made the aircraft burst into flames.

CATSKILL — A small aircraft was seen crashing into the Hudson River off Catskill, at approximately 4:30 Thursday afternoon.

Analyses of airliner impacts became mandatory after terrorists deliberately crashed two aircraft into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York in 2001.

Advanced artificial intelligence is needed to fly large numbers of autonomous aircraft without crashing them into one another or, say, the local news channel's traffic helicopter.

«We've been worried since 9/11 about how to protect against bad guys hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into a nuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulates them.

But the Air France flight was crashed into the sea not by terrorists but by a crew who managed to stall the aircraft in a storm after apparently believing the autoflight computers — which were disengaged at the time — would prevent a stall.

Researchers have long known that cosmic rays crashing into Earth's atmosphere create a spray of secondary particles such as neutrons, protons, electrons, X-rays and gamma - rays that penetrate aircraft.

With communications lost and fuel quickly running out after Ray inexplicably, unforgivably crashes into an unpiloted aircraft (causing a wing to catch fire), his plane turns around to return to New York but desperately needs a cleared runway on which to land with various gears breaking down.

A man nearly crashes a plane into an aircraft carrier deck after a close encounter with enemy pilots.

It may be just the kettle of fish for those old enough to want adventure (such as exploding aircraft, spectacular crashes, hand - to - hand confrontations and expeditions into the unknown), but still young enough to embrace the script's magical premise.

With TWA's most experienced pilot flying a 10 - month - old aircraft on a clear night, why did the flight crash into the side of a Nevada mountain?

If you miscalculate, your missile may crash into the planet or other obstacles before taking out the enemy aircraft.

[1]: xii The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD - 83, crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north of Anacapa Island, California, after suffering a catastrophic loss of pitch control.

The results of an investigation into the incident where a Tropic Air aircraft crash - landed in the sea moments after it attempted lift - off at the Placencia airstrip in November are still to be released.

So far as I have been able to discover, no aircraft, anywhere in the world, has ever crashed into a wind turbine or due to turbulence from a wind turbine or wind farm.

During the past 18 months, the firm represented four families at an inquest into the death of five service personnel killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, which led to a recommendation that safety rules should be reviewed and all military aircraft fitted with flight data recorders.

(6) A person who possesses or controls a drone and causes the drone to fire a bullet or other projectile at an aircraft while the aircraft is in the air, or intentionally causes or attempts to cause the drone to crash into an aircraft while the aircraft is in the air, commits a Class A felony.

There have been a couple of high profile air crashes recently and in at least one of those cases it seems that at present that airline sent a perfectly serviceable aircraft manned by a competent crew into the air and it fell out of the sky into the South Atlantic.