Sentences with phrase «of air crashes»

It turns out that this type of mix - up is a major contributor to a number of air crashes.

RIP to the 23 Legends that lost their lives as a result of the air crash.

FEARLESS By Andrew Lewis Conn Remember Peter Weir's great 1993 movie with Jeff Bridges as the survivor of an air crash?

For example, researchers compared a computer simulation of an air crash, an audiotape with written transcript of a cockpit voice recorder, and a speaker reading the cockpit voice recorder, and asked people to decide whether they believed there was a pilot error based on the evidence to which they had been exposed.

This is where the decision is most open to challenge in the future as a defendant may well be able to produce evidence of air crash analysis which at least raises a question over the issue.

Not exact matches

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.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) will examine the scene to determine the cause of the crash.»

Air national guard C - 130 cargo plane was on a training mission and the cause of the crash wasn't immediately known

A crew of nine Puerto Ricans were flying an Air National Guard C - 130 into retirement in Arizona when it crashed onto a highway in Georgia on Wednesday, and authorities said there are no survivors.

The crash of an Air National Guard transport was the second fatal crash in less than a year involving a version of the C - 130, a workhorse of military aviation.

Investor risk - preferences, as conveyed by the uniformity or divergence of market internals, are the hinge between overvaluation that persists and overvaluation that devolves into air pockets, free - falls, and crashes.

Even when market internals have been favorable, those syndromes have typically acted as a strong warning of oncoming air - pockets, panics, and crashes, so deteriorating market internals have quickly followed.

That accident left 47 people dead and released millions of litres of oil into the air, water and soil when the runaway train crashed in the small Quebec town.

Air - pockets, panics and crashes had regularly followed these and lesser «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» extremes in every previous market cycle, and our reliance on that fact became our Achilles Heel during the advancing half of this one.

Investigators in the U.S. and Canada are looking into a crash in the Canadian province of Newfoundland in which a woman was killed by an exploding air bag inflator made by ARC Automotive Inc. of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The last death resulting from an emergency on a commercial flight was slightly more recent — in December 2013, one of the nine people on a Makani Kai Air commuter flight died following a crash.

«The Puerto Rico Air National Guard and the whole Puerto Rico community has been through quite a lot over the last few months,» Col. Pete Boone, a spokesman for Georgia's Air National Guard, said at a news conference in front of the crash site on Thursday.

At least five people died when a Puerto Rico Air National Guard weather reconnaissance plane crashed on Wednesday near Savannah, Georgia during a training flight, sending up thick clouds of black smoke, according to officials and television images.

Air crash investigators have been called to the crash site, in a dense woodland, alongside paramedics, firefighters and Thames Valley Police, who said the first priority was «preservation of life».

The Airbus EC130 B4 crashed just before sunset on Saturday on tribal land in a section of the Grand Canyon outside of the national park where air tours are not as highly regulated.

Raised in Portugal, in the fertile lands of Alemquer, I die a refugee, dead from the foreign air and its foul decay, food for the hungry fish in a brutish sea, that crashes against these wild Abyssinian sands, so unlike Alemquer, and so far away

Clubs, players and ex-players, managers and pundits alike have all given their contribution to an enormous wave of sadness and pity after this morning's tragic air crash in Colombia, which saw the majority of Brazilian side Chapecoense's squad killed in a plane crash in Colombia.

1:31 p.m. — The first crash of the race came on Lap 53, when polesitter Scott Dixon was hit by the slowing car of Jay Howard, leading to a huge crash that saw the former car flip through the air, damage the safety fence and bounce off the barrier.

Two world wars and an economic crash come and go, as international football carves out its place, without quite ridding itself of its ramshackle, amateurish air.

The one time the in - form Black Cats keeper was beaten was a Chamakh header that crashed against the bar when you could sense an air of desperation and frustration amongst the Arsenal players.

In her brilliant new book, «The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream,» Courtney Martin writes, «When the economy crashed, the air was let out of the overinflated ego of the so - called American Dream.»

The soothing sound of ocean waves crashing, the smell of sunscreen and the way that the humid salty air lingers on your skin long after you've made your way home — there are so many reasons that I love New England in the summer, but spending time at the ocean tops them all.

As Congress debated amendments Thursday, Western New York Democrat Brian Higgins urged his colleagues not to roll back safety standards passed in response to the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in Clarence Center.

The Delta Air Lines flight that crash landed at LaGuardia Airport yesterday morning skidded off a runway that had just been cleared of snow and came to rest just inches short of the icy waters that surround the terminal.

Area faith leaders held a vigil near Stewart Air National Guard Base in Orange County over the weekend in support of the families of 15 Marines and a Navy sailor killed in a plane crash in Mississippi one week ago.

Crew members of a military plane that crashed in Mississippi, killing 16 people on board, were based at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

Meanwhile, Dana Air said that it has implemented the safety recommendations rolled out by the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) after its crash of June 3, 2012.

Investigations have revealed the main causes of the Dana Air crash which occurred in 2012 in Nigeria where 159 people lost their lives.

A former Governor of Taraba State, Dambaba Suntai who survived air crash in October 25, 2012.

But the New York Democrat also looked to updated air safety regulations passed following an intensive lobbying effort by the families of victims of Flight 3407, which crashed in Clarence in 2009.

An inquiry is under way into the cause of the crash — Algeria's worst - ever air disaster.

He said the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, had directed the constitution of a board of inquiry to determine the immediate and remote causes of the crash.

The Air National Guard has found pieces of its unmanned drone that crashed into Lake Ontario earlier this week.

Sudden panic rented the air in Oworonshoki area of Lagos, Thursday morning following a plane crash scare.

And today the Post printed a very specific piece of hearsay, which writers acknowledge is «unsubstantiated,» twice on the same page of the paper: that «Paterson was late arriving at the scene of last February's tragic air crash outside Buffalo because he was supposedly preoccupied with a local lady friend.»

Chief of Air Staff, (CAS) Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, made the promise while addressing journalists in Abuja on the series of plane crashes experienced by NAF.

9 Credit a mix of improvements, including crash impact standards, air bags, better tires, antilock brakes, and stability control.

Investigators are looking into the possibility that faulty airspeed indicators caused the crash of Air France Flight 447

A trio of deep - sea robots are the best hope yet for finding what caused one of aviation's most mysterious disasters, the crash of Air France flight 447

Rasmussen thinks that good visibility played a major role in the crash of a US Air jet at La Guardia Airport in New York in March 1992.

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.

A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near - fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006 crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.

In another incident just three months later, an Air Tahiti wide - body jetliner flying out of Los Angeles nearly crashed into a small private plane flying two miles above the ocean.

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.