Words similar to aircraft
Example sentences for: aircraft
How can you use “aircraft” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
That document reports Murad describing his idea of crashing a plane into CIA headquarters, but in this report Murad claims he was thinking of hijacking a commercial aircraft to do it, saying the idea had come up in a casual conversation with Yousef with no specific plan for its execution.
As I show in my book Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes (University of Chicago Press, 1994), these examples are representative of a wide range of accidents and near misses in which language misunderstandings or omissions have played a contributing and sometimes central role.
For the call to the FAA, see DOD record, Senior Operations Officer log, Sept. 11, 2001 ("9:00 NMCC called FAA, briefed of explosion at WTC possibly from aircraft crash.
FAA memo, "Full Transcript; Aircraft Accident; UAL175; New York, NY; September 11, 2001," Jan.
They did this on 9/11 when the transponder signals for three of the aircraft disappeared.