Sentences with phrase «by aircraft crashing»

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

Not exact matches

Prior to Tuesday, the most recent fatal accident came in February 2009 near Buffalo, New York, when an aircraft operated by the now - defunct regional airline Colgan Air crashed and killed 50 people, including 49 on board and one person on the ground.

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.

«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.»

The crash was caused by moisture in the sensors that created bad readings to the flight control computer that consequently forced the aircraft to pitch up on takeoff.

Duffy noted the aircraft was the first helicopter purchased by the State Police since 2002 and replaced one that crashed in 2012.

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.

Paul Leventhal, who heads the Nuclear Control Institute, a lobby group in Washington DC, says the German claims that MOX fuel would not disperse after an aircraft crash are not supported by scientific evidence.

Its revisionist history suggests that the space race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in the Sixties was inspired by the crash on the dark side of the moon of an alien aircraft from the planet Cybertron, the home of the Transformers.

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.

In 1950, a dummy was created by Samuel W. Alderson of the Alderson Research Labs and was used to perform crash tests for both aircraft and motor vehicles.

In the wake of Tuesday's crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320 aircraft that is believed to have been caused by...

An MA - 60 aircraft operated by Merpati Nusantara Airlines has crash landed in Indonesia with 52 people on board.

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.

The aircraft's emergency transponder was set off some time later by the crash in the remote northwestern Maine woods, he said.

You may be entitled to compensation if the crash was caused by negligence or recklessness, or by defects in the aircraft or its components.

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.