The plane was spinning out of control.

飞机失去控制，不停地旋转。

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Not only did you find out much more about a country than when traveling by train or plane, but there was that element of excitement about where you would finish up that night.

与乘火车或飞机旅行相比，你不仅能了解到更多关于一个国家的信息，而且还能感受到那晚在哪里结束的那种兴奋。

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Jumping out of a moving plane is not as revolutionary as it was 600 years ago when Renaissance inventors started experimenting with the parachute.

从一个移动中的飞机中跳出来可不像600年前文艺复兴发明家们开始测试降落伞那样具有革命意义。

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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.

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But when you look out of a plane window as you buckle-up ahead of landing at a UK airport, the revelation is how green the country appears.

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He called 911 and they followed the police dispatcher's order to get out of the sinking single-engine plane, then "everything went blank, " Smidt said.

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