Berry said he heard a bang, then saw pieces of the plane fall out of the air.
She was known for camping out each summer with the Air Force Academy freshman class, for going up in almost every kind of plane the Air Force flies, and for taking off on early-morning bicycle treks when she visited bases around the country.
Then, seemingly tired, she squints at the afternoon sun, hesitating before cracking her jaws in the yawning attitude of a passenger in a plane clearing her ears of accumulated air pressure.
Former Air Force meteorologist Tim Vasquez wrote about thunderstorms over the Atlantic at the time of the Air France plane's disappearance on his Web site, weathergraphics.com.
Later, in the departures lounge, I watched the landing of a huge United States Air Force transport plane, which disgorged lots of equipment and loaded several lorries-full of troops.
And on Thursday, his casket was wrapped in an American flag as it was transported off a military plane onto the tarmac of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, according to the U.S. Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operation.
There are obviously a number of complicated logistics involved with moving Air Force One, moving a plane of reporters, events, local stops, phone calls involved.
The Air Force also will have a plane in the air that can detect the release of hydrazine gas.
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Obviously I also want to make mention of the extraordinary tragedy of the Air France plane that we believe may have gone down.
Indeed, in an effort apparently designed to calm concerns, one of Boeing's airline customers - Bjorn Kjos, chief executive of Norwegian Air Shuttle - has come out in defence of the plane, echoing the view that "minor problems" such as these should be expected.
An early version of a flexible Air Force plane with vertical take-off and landing capabilities.
Then an apparently disturbed man took only minutes to burst through the entry to the cockpit of a United Air Lines plane.
Big name French companies that have announced job losses and layoffs recently include car-maker Renault, advertising firm Havas - trimming 5% of its workforce - plane maker EADS, and Air France.
The plane's grounding on Jan. 16, an enormous black eye for Boeing, marked the first time since 1979 that FAA had ordered every plane of a particular type to stay out of the air for safety reasons.
While no specifics have been released about the plane that crashed, Dana Air said its fleet consists of Boeing MD-83 aircraft.
But video footage of her arrival at Tuzla shows Clinton, then first lady, calmly walking from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force plane with her daughter, Chelsea, then 16, at her side.
The flight is believed to have lost an engine mid-air, and the pilot of the plane is reported to have called for emergency landing while making futile, frantic efforts to sustain the aircraft with the remaining functional engine.
Five grand in the flying world is three months of fixed costs before I ever get the plane in the air.
The width of the plane is the same for all airlines, but Air New Zealand puts only six seats across each premium economy row.
In 1995, a French air force cargo plane landed at the Bosnian city of Mostar, becoming the first aircraft to do so since 1992.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, or Emercom, published the full list of the 45 passengers on board a plane that exploded mid air and crashed in the Volga River on Wednesday afternoon in central Russia.
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Despite the government's denials, Mr Sondhi's claims that it ferried guests to Mr Thaksin's sister's birthday party on an air-force plane, padded the purchase price of luggage scanners for Bangkok's new airport, and usurped the prerogatives of the country's Buddhist patriarch, to name a few have received wide coverage.
For instance, a Pakistani air force plane in 2002 refueled in the Chinese city of Lanzhou as it carried centrifuges to North Korea.
The planemaker itself has already had to delay delivery of the plane to two European airlines - Thomson Airways and Norwegian Air Shuttle.
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The telemetry used in civil aviation transmits data on engine performance and the behaviour of other systems back to base while the plane is in the air.
The Pope, who is turning 81 this month, looked frail as he arrived in Athens on Friday morning for the 24-hour visit, descending the steps of his plane slowly but unaided to be greeted by a Greek Air Force honour guard.
The crew of Air France Flight 447 reported severe turbulence shortly before the plane disappeared.
The officials said initial reports said the plane crashed at the headquarters of the U.S. military's air operations for the Middle East.
For Mr Bush, the mid-air collision of a Chinese fighter with an American spy plane in April 2001 became the first foreign-policy crisis of his presidency.
There were also doubts about the future of such a big plane if, as rival Boeing Co predicted, air traffic shifted towards routes between smaller airports rather than big hubs.
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