Sentences with phrase «cargo plane»

The number of C - 130 cargo planes at the base would be reduced from 11 to eight.

Next, you are taken to the skies as your very large cargo plane begins to fly towards the island.

I did a similar trip a few years ago on a modified Russian cargo plane.

A crew of nine Puerto Ricans were killed Wednesday when a military cargo plane crashed near Savannah / Hilton Head International Airport minutes after takeoff, sending black smoke billowing into the sky, authorities said.

A surveillance camera from a local business captured the C - 130 military cargo plane crashing outside of Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday afternoon.

Boeing is reportedly considering the conversion of used 777 passenger jets into cargo planes in order to capitalize on the boom in e-commerce-related shipments.

While there were «no identifiable or specific threats,» an FBI official in Chicago said suspicious packages addressed to U.S. destinations found on cargo planes abroad warranted the precautions.

A Russian - built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan's capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses said.

The Ministry of Defence will not ground the RAF's fleet of Hercules cargo planes, despite US fears over wing cracks.

Last month, the US government secretly flew two cargo planes into Kazakhstan and spirited away — with the cooperation of the republic's government — enough highly enriched uranium to make 20 bombs.

You'll spend 8 hours seated in cargo netting along the fuselage of an LC - 130 turboprop cargo plane packed with tons of equipment (from frozen food to compressed helium), struggling to hear yourself think (forget about hearing the person next to you talk).

All nine people on board were killed when a Puerto Rico Air National Guard cargo plane crashed on Wednesday near Savannah, Georgia, scattering fiery debris over a highway and railroad tracks, authorities said yesterday.

Flames and smoke rise from an Air National Guard C - 130 cargo plane after it crashed near Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, May 2, 2018.

Historically, residents of Midwest City have contributed much to the U.S. Airforce and the safety of our country; nearby factories staffed by citizens of Midwest City produced more than half of the C - 47 cargo planes used in World War II.

Rex was delivered by a TWA cargo plane to Kansas City via New York via Brussels from Belgrade on 12 June 1951.

You can expect to see Prime Air cargo planes provide an immediate boost upgrade to Amazon's delivery process, unlike than the company's delivery drone program that was announced in 2013, and still hasn't reached fruition.

Once we get to the base, the crew will load up the container on an enormous cargo plane provided by the Air Force, called a C - 17.

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.

Chatham County Deputy Coroner Tiffany Williams says police tell her two people have been killed in the crash of a military cargo plane near an airport in Savannah, Georgia.

In August 2016, the company unveiled its first branded cargo plane, one of 40 jetliners that were expected to make up its own air transportation network.

The main premise is the same: a motley crew of cargo plane passengers crash in a storm, after leaving an oil drilling operation in Mongolia that is closing down.

Occasionally, when supplies were delivered by cargo planes to the landing field across the river, the children rode their bicycles to the river bank and watched, intrigued, the unloading and then the takeoff directed to the west, always away from the community.

UBS researchers admit cargo planes would be more likely than commercial airlines to try pilotless flights.

Boeing tried the idea in the early 1970s with the 754 — a wide - body cargo plane with a hold that included five side - by - side cargo bays 90 feet long.

The military is investigating why an aging cargo plane, perhaps making its final military flight, nosedived Wednesday into a Georgia highway, killing all nine people on board.

The entire country's current annual import of cocaine would fit into a single C - 5A cargo plane.

NDBN has been asked to help fill two cargo planes destined for Puerto Rico.

Our sources say the luxury cars arrived on a Global African Airlines cargo plane.

In the UK there were grumbles of discontent over David Cameron's decision to provide two RAF C - 17 Globemaster cargo planes to French forces.

Control orders will be under fresh scrutiny following the discovery of a suspected bomb on an American cargo plane at East Midlands Airport earlier this week.

In early April, after finishing tests at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, the telescope will be put in crates and shipped via cargo plane to the South African Astronomical Observatory near Sutherland.

One of the bombs, which contained 400 grams of PETN, was found at the East Midlands Airport in England, having traveled there on board a United Parcel Service cargo plane.

A Hercules military cargo plane sat stranded, unable to take off.

Since Abdulmutallab's attempt, efforts to secure airline cabins have been stepped up, but security surrounding cargo planes and cargo compartments in passenger airplanes has received much less attention, particularly outside the U.S..

A U.S. Air Force C - 17 cargo plane transported MAVEN from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado to Kennedy Space Center on Friday.

The United Nations dispatched cargo planes and helicopters, and DRC government officials began holding daily coordinating committee meetings attended by representatives from international aid, and development organizations, WHO, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But new boy Christopher McQuarrie more than makes up for that with gasp - inducing action sequences that will have you holding your breath in sympathy with those getting pummeled: the opening sequence, in which Tom Cruise's IMF agent Ethan Hunt jumps onto the wing of an taxiing cargo plane and clings to its side as the enormous thing takes off beautifully ups the ante on Protocol's hanging - off - the - side - of - a-skyscraper stunt.

Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) becomes the fifth different director to helm a film in the franchise, and he kicks things off with the stunning pre-credit action sequence you have probably already heard about... Cruise tackles an Airbus A400M (aka a huge cargo plane).

November 17, 2013 • The U.S. is using Navy helicopters and Marine Osprey cargo planes to get to remote typhoon - ravaged Philippine islands in areas that have been hard to reach.

This time we find him actually strapped to the side of an Airbus A400M cargo plane 3000 feet in the air!

Bless Tom Cruise for clambering up the outside of an escaping cargo plane in the breathless opening minutes of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.

Judging from the trailer, and in true «M: I» fashion, «Rogue Nation» promises to feature plenty of eye - popping action — rappelling down buildings, speeding after bad guys on motorcycles, hanging off the side of a rapidly ascending A400 cargo plane — set against globe - hopping locales.

But make no mistake about it: this is Tom Cruise's movie, and when you pull off stunts like the military cargo plane set piece highlighted in the trailers, it's plain to see why it isn't really up for discussion.

Jared's dream of finding a sunken treasure ship come to life when he uncovers what looks to be the remains of a famed pirate ship, the Zephyr, and in the same day, he also finds the downed cargo plane ostensibly carrying hundreds of kilos of cocaine.

The teams removed 19 dies from Meridian's badly damaged facility, and in one case, moved an 87,000 - pound die from Eaton Rapids, Mich., to Nottingham, U.K., via an Antonov cargo plane — one of the largest in the world — in just 30 hours door - to - door.