Sentences with phrase «plane slam»

When I saw the plane slam into the second tower, it took my breath away.

In fact, the world's worst airline disaster happened on a runway in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, in 1977, when a KLM pilot at the helm of a Boeing 747 mistakenly thought the controller had cleared him for takeoff and his plane slammed into a Pan American 747 taxiing on the same runway.

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The week after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico and unleashed the single largest blackout in US history, Blake Richetta, the senior vice president of a renewable - energy company called Sonnen, boarded a plane bound for the island.

Days later, Hurricane Maria slammed into the 156th Airlift Wing's home base in Puerto Rico, and the plane subsequently transported supplies from the U.S. mainland to the ruined island.

«Muslim Americans were innocent passengers on those planes,» Obama said, referring to the aircraft that slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks, «including a young married couple looking forward to the birth of their first child.»

«What a great story it would be if Phil completed the grand slam here,» Stewart's daughter Chelsea Stewart said on the grounds where her father earned his final victory before dying in a plane crash four months later.

FRESNO — A man who believes he saw Steve Fossett's plane moments before it slammed into a mountain in 2007 said headwinds were so strong that day that the plane appeared to be «standing still,» according to a federal report released Thursday.

The first plane that slammed into the World Trade Center traveled over the Hudson River in Yonkers down towards Lower Manhattan.

Astorino is slamming Cuomo for what he says is a lack of preparation in the lead up to the case coming here, and for not closing off the city's international airports to planes with passengers coming from Ebola - stricken countries.

As Sagittarius approached the Milky Way, passed through its disk, and circled back again, the dark halo of Sagittarius would have slammed into the plane of the Milky Way twice, knocking the disk askew and stirring up the formation of its spiral arms.

Also, the section hit by the plane had recently been renovated and a number of security measures installed: strengthened walls, blast - resistant windows, a new sprinkler system, fire dampers in the ducts, and accordion fire doors that slammed shut immediately after the crash.

Whether playfully running down hills with arms extended like a plane, slamming your cap against wooden crates to bust them open, or capturing a frog for the first time — an otherworldly experience that will be as memorable for Mario as it is for you — this initial playground presents the chance to get to grips with the core gameplay mechanics before Nintendo throws you into a wider sandbox.

A burning plane falls from the sky, slamming the passengers around inside.

It can be exploited to spin the plane around faster than you can by normal means, if you are too close to the ground while using this though, the plane can violently spin around in a manner that will slam you into the floor.

You might be driving down the road when you have to suddenly slam on the brakes because a pig that is on fire being chased by a bear just ran across the road, or you might be holding off incoming enemies atop a church when a patrolling plane decides to strafe you.