Sentences with phrase «as plane flight»

With a number of engaging activities such as plane flight simulators, Scalextric, and train travel workshops — it's the perfect day out for a school trip.

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The pilot of Flight 1380 made a safe emergency landing in Philadelphia, bringing the plane down quickly as the cabin depressurized.

In 2015, a man on a Urumqi Airlines flight to China's Xinjiang region allegedly accidentally opened the emergency exit as the plane was getting ready to take off, the South China Morning Post reported.

A bit more than hundred years ago, before the plane was invented, there was simply no such job as pilot, flight attendant or ground crew.

Especially as the plane landed in Oklahoma City at 9.45 p.m. and didn't resume its flight to Denver until, oh, 2.15 a.m.

Except, as Wills knows, the business of getting the parts to the planes is something of a logistical minuet that involves finding the component, some of which can run to $ 250,000, loading it on a commercial flight, dealing with customs, and finally getting the part into the hands of the mechanics at the other end.

As we've seen in previous incidents, passengers who try to make a jump for it while the plane is in the air usually wind up restrained during the flight and in handcuffs once the plane lands.

If, as several eyewitnesses have claimed, a flight attendant «insisted» that the dog's owner, Catalina Robledo, needed to store the pet in an overhead bin, why didn't the passenger object more fervently or get off the plane?

Items from the modern cabinet of wonders, such as GPS and radar and mobile - phone technology and flight - tracker apps that let you follow planes from your pocket, hand us an illusory sense of control - a notion that we have, through gadgetry, rendered the world finite.

Airlines including American, United, JetBlue and Delta have added flights to Florida to the last few days to move as many passengers and the carriers» expensive planes out of harms way.

«I tried to ignore the people until 10 minutes passed and a flight attendant came over to me and asked me and my baby to move to the back of the plane (as if the people in the back didn't matter).

Imagine you're a flight attendant working in first class, as the plane is preparing to take off.

As these planes are added, the airline plans to enlarge its discount Rouge brand — which takes flight in July with four planes — by adding six more aircraft in 2013.

A Korean Air Lines Co executive, whose dismay over the way she was served macadamia nuts led to a plane returning to its gate to expel the cabin crew chief, has stepped down as head of in - flight service, the airline said on Tuesday.

Southwest Airlines flight attendants demonstrate how to inflate the emergency life vests as a plane prepares to take off from Los Angeles International Airport.

As for Boeing's hypersonic plane, Muilenburg admited the company still has to prove there are enough people around who are willing to pay for an ultra-fast flight to the other half of the world.

As for travel costs between countries this month, I already had my plane tickets, but flying within Europe is often quite economical, with one - way flights as little as $ 25 to $ 7As for travel costs between countries this month, I already had my plane tickets, but flying within Europe is often quite economical, with one - way flights as little as $ 25 to $ 7as little as $ 25 to $ 7as $ 25 to $ 75.

As of February 10, the SC100, the smallest plane in the series, had registered 967 flight hours.

Washington (AFP)- An aging US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said.

The latter includes asking flight attendants to no longer bother checking passengers» tickets for a second time as they board the plane, and a requirement that all passengers checking luggage arrive at the airport 45 minutes before their flights, instead of the usual 30 minutes.

Travelers accustomed to riding in a full - size jet instead find themselves on planes with tighter seating, lower ceilings and fewer amenities for flights as long as four hours.

In one disturbing example, a flight simulator discovered that a very hard landing would overload its memory and register as super smooth, so it bashed planes into an aircraft carrier.

I've endured hostile flight attendants in premium cabins on 14 hour flights, overheard United Club supervisors making homophobic comments to other employees, followed news coverage of passengers being physically removed from planes and watched as Kirby has wrecked an otherwise improving operation.

Airlines could also carry activity books for kids, perhaps even with a focus on air travel that gently gets home important messages, such as what space on a plane is yours, how noise travels, and how nice it is to nap in flight.

Kuwait Airways said on Twitter that Flight 118 from New York to Kuwait was struck by the Chinese plane as it was parked before takeoff.

For instance they can be brought onto a plane flight on carry - on where as DE blades can't be — and I travel lightly and keep everything in a carry - on because I hate waiting for luggage to come through that motarized thing (or having it all get lost and going to the wrong place.).

Listen to the communications between the pilot of Southwest Flight 1380 and Air Traffic Control at Philadelphia International Airport as the plane came in for an emergency landing.

No one at the WTC or on any of the plane flights did anything to deserve what happened, so how can the terrorists involved even remotely think of themselves as acting in a way that was pleasing to God?

One week before the successful flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the New York Times had this to say about a rival plane builder: «We hope that Professor Langley will not put his substantial greatness as a scientist in further peril by continuing to waste his time, and the money involved, in further airship experiments.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

I would like to sleep on the plane (something I have never managed to do well), as I have the red - eye flights.

This year unfortunately I won't be seeing my mother for brunch (or at all) on Mother's Day as she's currently living in Western Australia, two plane flights away... But the good news is that she is actually in the process of moving back to Tasmania, down to Hobart!

PitchFX tracks the flight of the ball through three - dimensional space; it is presented as a spot on a two - dimensional plane because that's how the networks and Brooks Baseball and others choose to present it.

Pack what you need (plus a bit extra) for your flight in your carry - on, and so long as the rest is checked under the plane you shouldn't have any issues.

Ten to twelve hours solid on a plane is daunting for a solo flight, never mind with a baby or toddler, so I'm not surprised Hawaii is listed as a «dream» for many families in my neck of the woods.

My plane took off as planned at 7:30 and was an uneventful flight thank goodness.

(As an aside, we travelled a couple times with our oldest, and he did great, except on one leg of a flight when he was 18 mos, where among other delays, we sat in the plane on the runway for 3 hours with no food / water service (we ran out of snacks)-- we got dirty looks because he was (understandably) crying, and then when I nursed him to calm him down, that got me looks too.

Or should we limit where on the flights babies can sit completely, as in only the last 2 rows of the whole plane?

there is no bassinet on the plane as its small but the booking agent said they would keep the middle seat free between my husband and I if its not a busy flight.

As someone who travels all the time with my kids, and, gasp, in business class on overseas flights, I am offended that people automatically look at me with disgust when I board the plane.

Is giving Benadryl for a plane flight really «drugging» your child as some people suggest?

Then, once on the plane, since it is all cloth there were no annoying buckles digging into me when sitting down so I could wear it the full flight and even use it as a cover while breastfeeding (with strangers sitting only inches away from me on either side).

Gate checking means you'll leave the stroller at the gate or jetway before you board the airplane, and it will be waiting for you as you exit the plane after the flight.

The bribery allegedly included a 2013 trip to Las Vegas aboard a private plane with a hooker who told The Post she engaged in group sex with the men while dressed as a flight attendant.

Sources said Grant was also on a plane where NYPD officials allegedly had sex with a prostitute dressed as a flight attendant.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is the latest member of Trump's Cabinet who has been caught flying on a private charter plane at taxpayer expense, reportedly taking a flight to Ohio, only a day before Tom Price resigned as health secretary for doing the same.

Ortiz cited recent media reports of pilots flying drunk as the reason for his bill, including incidents in which an American Airlines pilot flunked two sobriety tests before his flight from Detroit and an Alaska Airlines pilot who flew a commercial plane from California to Oregon and back again while reportedly drunk.

«There weren't any drone collisions until now, and when you consider how many flights there are, I think it confirms my suspicion that there is not this insane risk of planes going down regularly as sometimes the media had us fear would happen,» says Mykel Kochenderfer, an aeronautics engineer and director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.

The jets were the first planes capable of flying faster than the speed of sound in level flight and are, as I learned, the direct descendants of the X-1.

As the engine data is filtered from a larger ACARS report covering all the plane's critical flight systems and avionics, it could mean the airline has some useful clues about the condition of the aircraft prior to its disappearance.