Sentences with phrase «passenger planes»

Fourteen years ago, terrorists hijacked four passenger planes, ramming two into New York's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon outside Washington, and crash - landing one on an empty field in Pennsylvania.

Worked regularly at two different airports loading cargo planes and unloading passenger planes.

Its 12 - passenger planes would have a maximum cruise speed of 360 mph, a takeoff distance of 2,200 feet, and an 80 percent reduction of emissions and noise.

William Shurcliff was a Harvard physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project in World War II, helped stop supersonic passenger planes in the 1960s, and took a big interest in passive solar and superinsulated building in the 1970s and»80s.

It may not signify anything but the Australian air safety regulator has just announced that last summer had an extremely high number of air turbulence incidents affecting large passenger planes.

11 September: A series of coordinated attacks on America is carried out by terrorist group al - Qaeda using four commercial passenger planes.

Tropic Air runs two flights a day to Belize City in their comfortable single propeller seven passenger planes.

Many of the sub-genres on the margins of fiction — fables, parables, tales, chronicles — routinely come in miniature but potent receptacles, like the bottles of vodka and bourbon served on passenger planes, as do numerous other documents and oral presentations ripe for fictionalizing — job applications, confessions, courtroom speeches, love letters, advisory perorations («that thou can» st not be false to any man»).

On the morning of Thursday, August 10, 2006, Steven Lancaster woke to the breaking news of arrests: British terrorists had allegedly planned to explode up to 10 passenger planes bound for the United States over the mid-Atlantic using liquid bombs, hiding the components of each bomb inside their carry - on luggage.

In early 2017 two large passenger planes and a smaller corporate jet practiced landing, one right after the other, without the usual constant help of an air traffic controller.

Before we fill the skies with swarms of autonomously flying cameras, atmospheric sensors, and Mexican food, we need to figure out how to keep them from crashing into one another, not to mention heading into passenger planes.

The decision follows a high - profile campaign against the project that included advertisements on New York buses showing images of the burning Twin Towers, an iconic landmark razed when al - Qaida terrorists flew packed passenger planes into them in 2001.

The government has frozen the assets of 19 people connected with the plot to blow up several passenger planes mid-air.

The former 30 - cents - an - hour TWA mechanic built his fortune by supplying surplus military equipment to the airline industry and later converting passenger planes to cargo planes.

There are difficult moral choices for the pilots of passenger planes (or cruise ships), for capital punishment, for terminating certain kinds or road rage, involving burning propane trucks (BLEVE)..

Our technologies are used in aircraft ranging from the most used single aisle aircraft and the largest passenger planes in the world to business jets and the world's advanced 5th generation fighter aircraft.

But if you're ever at the Las Vegas airport, keep an eye out for some small, unmarked, passenger planes in a fenced - off area.

A Boeing - Embraer tie - up may give the Chicago giant a foothold to sell small regional jets in China, where the state - run Commercial Aircraft Corp of China is testing locally - built passenger planes, Edward Jones» Windau said.

It may be a moot point in the end because European aerospace giant Airbus, Boeing's chief rival, last year agreed to take a majority stake in the jet program and the two plan to build the aircraft in Alabama, where Airbus makes narrowbody passenger planes.

MONTREAL / SINGAPORE, April 27 - New global packaging standards expected in late 2018 will allow lithium - ion batteries back into passenger plane cargo holds, pending design and regulatory approval, but some airlines say the new rule overlooks other safety concerns.

More news this week, confirmation that the Russian passenger plane that crashed over Egypt's Sinai, killing all 224 passengers and crew, was also an act of terrorism just stoked the already sensitive nerves of the global community.

Could an electric passenger plane be on the horizon?

Viking bought the rights to the 19 - passenger plane from Bombardier in 2005, modernized the cockpit, improved some of the materials and began selling the planes in 2010.

Airbus manufacturers the world's biggest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, a four - engine monster that can fit up to 800 people.

China's first homegrown passenger plane is to take to the skies before July this year, according to state media.

«In lieu of making a large purchase and consuming debt, he started with a two - passenger plane.

Singapore Airlines wasforced to land an Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane, at a small New York airportafter J.F.K. was closed.

Jetliners can already take off, cruise and land using their onboard flight computers and the number of pilots on a standard passenger plane has dropped to two from three over the years.

A Southwest Airlines passenger plane prepares to take off from Denver International Airport on Sept. 7, 2016.

After stock indices sleepwalked their way to record highs last month, blissfully oblivious to all the terrible, awful events unfolding in the world — the spread of both Ebola and the equally vile Islamic State, Russia's continued aggression toward its neighbours (remember that time Putin - backed rebels blew a passenger plane out of the sky?)

A passenger plane of Cathay Pacific Airways parks at the airport in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, October 19, 2017.

A prisoner in Iceland suspected of masterminding the theft of about 600 computers that were being used to mine bitcoin and other virtual currencies escaped custody and fled Tuesday on a passenger plane that a witness said also carried the remote North...

E.g. the story of the young Italo - American who hijacked a passenger plane to get home from California to Rome was taken up without protest even by the reactionary mass press and undoubtedly correctly understood by its readers.

Prayers were said as a US passenger plane blew an engine at 32,000 ft causing a woman to be partially sucked out of a window.

Because if the world knew that anything other than a passenger plane hit the pentagon, the whole «story» would go up in flames.

Button visited the Heathrow Flight Training Centre to have a go at landing the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380.

Hillary Clinton says there's «growing awareness» that Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was probably shot down by Russian insurgents — but argued that European leaders must «take the lead» on any action if that proves to be the case.

A Cuban state airways passenger plane with 104 passengers on board crashed shortly after taking off Friday from Havana's Jose Marti airport, state media reported.

«If you tried to scale it up to make the wing of a passenger plane, it would be a terrible idea,» says Socha (Journal of Experimental Biology, doi.org/q92).

39,000 feet (7 miles) The human altitude record is roughly tied among stowaways who climbed into passenger plane wheel wells.

The balloon's 12 - pound payload, including a GPS transponder, is held together with flimsy string and Styrofoam — designed, per FAA regulations, to disintegrate if it encounters the turbines of a passenger plane.

His news and talk station was virtually alone in covering the onset of the flooding as national media attention was fixated on a crash that same day of an Airblue passenger plane in the Margalla Hills, just north of Islamabad.

«If you tried to scale it up to make the wing of a passenger plane, it would be a terrible idea,» says Socha.

The latest plot placed one PETN bomb and detonator in a cargo plane and another in the cargo hold of a passenger plane, where they were less likely to be detected.

A mysterious streak in the sky captured on tape by a news helicopter may have been a passenger plane en route to Phoenix

Other historical gems in the aviation hangar include a 1976 Concorde supersonic airliner donated by Air France after its last flight on June 12, 2003; a 1967 Lockheed SR - 71A Blackbird reconnaissance jet capable of Mach 3.3; and a 1938 Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first passenger plane with a pressurized cabin.

To the dismay of conspiracy theorists everywhere, the sky trail seems to have been caused by an ordinary passenger plane, according to the Pentagon and some independent experts.

The suspected drone collision with a passenger plane at Heathrow airport could accelerate regulation and herald the rise of geo - fencing technology

On Tuesday, another passenger plane crashed, this time in a remote region of western Venezuela, killing all 160 people aboard.

A convoluted plan that relies on events completely within the realm of chance yet comes off without a... Air China passenger plane «nearly crashes into a Hong Kong mountain after pilot fails to understand instructions and takes a WRONG turn» Flight CA428