Sentences with phrase «people board a plane»

Most people board a plane to escape to a tropical beach, see the Eiffel Tower or visit their family.

Fulwiler's revelation came one day as she watched scruffily dressed people board a plane.

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Whether it's a phone, tablet or wearable device, people are buying things and interacting with brands while they're on the go — walking to the car, waiting in line or boarding a plane.»

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.

Granted, the believers are perfectly happy relying on scientists and science to — I don't know — talk to people around the world instantaneously via this comment board, and then get in their cars, and fly in planes, and use electricity, and watch TV — all of those things based on science, and yet, when someone points out that scientists have mapped the human genome and other primates and can show, irrefutably, where the different primate families branched off — well, no, no no!

Or take Justine Sacco, who boarded a plane bound for South Africa while sending a satirical (if distasteful and easily interpreted as racist) tweet about white people not getting AIDS.

People are boarding planes to Munich as we speak.

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.

I obviously don't mean sell your baby for money, but as you are waiting to get on the plane or as you are getting on the plane and passing people who have already boarded, turn your baby around and let him smile at people.

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.

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.

Searchers spotted debris from a plane that disappeared over the Bahamas with four people on board, including a New York woman and her two children, the Coast Guard said.

People and governments react to terrorism by becoming more fearful of certain subsections of the population, fearful to carry out actions they may previously have no problem in doing (e.g. going to a concert, boarding a plane etc.) or fearful of the group itself i.e ISIS / Al - Qaeda.

Wednesday's plane crash is the deadliest in the world since July 2014, when all 298 people on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 died when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

The plane broke up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 on board and 11 people on the ground.

There are more movies to watch on board than there used to be, but the basic idea — a metal tube attached to jet engines that burn modified petroleum, carrying a lot of people at around 600 mph — is much the same as it has been for all planes since then.

«When we say five percent - probability high - impact event, people may dismiss it as small but it is equivalent to a one - in - 20 chance the plane you are about to board will crash,» said Ramanathan.

But people dislike playing Russian roulette — even with those odds — each time they board a plane, as the dip in travellers through fear of terrorist action around the Gulf War shows.

As much as celebrities like to think they are normal people just like the rest of us, they travel on private planes and we wait at a gate for our boarding number to be called like a game of bingo.

Bill boards a flight to London but realizes that things go wrong when an anonymous person texts Bill and threatens to kill passengers on the plane every 20 minutes.

More than a month later, no traces of the plane or the 239 people on board have been found.

They made certain that people using wheelchairs could board buses, trains, and planes.

In the current carry - on bag environment, the last people to board the plane often get stuck checking their bags at the gate and take the risk of losing their luggage.

I want this article to push those people over the edge and make the commitment to travel — even if it takes you two years of hard work to do what is required to board that plane.

Most people can handle sitting and waiting to board their planes, but with lounge access, it becomes a totally different experience.

When you board an airplane to get to your coach seat and pass all those people sitting in their comfortable seats in the front of the plane, this route is most likely how they arrived there.

A long line of people were waiting for general boarding but with Group 1 boarding I was able to walk right on the plane with no wait.

At every airport I walked, on every plane I boarded, as I made my way across two continents and two oceans, I looked at the people around me, moving like a herd through security and boarding lines.

«Walking the walk» is important and laudable in most meaningful things, but of course it goes without saying that unless people are flying their own private jets, the commerical planes would still be flying those routes with, or without, a climate scientist on board.

If that is not possible, as much evidence as possible should be collected to reconstruct what happened (did that person effectively board the plane, etc.).

The 2006 Warner Bros. film We Are Marshall starring Matthew McConaughey depicted the true story of a plane that crashed on Nov. 14, 1970, killing all 75 people on board.

People with higher class tickets are allowed to board the plane later and get off before the plebes in coach.