unairworthy

IPA: ʌnˈɛrwɝði

adjective

  • Not ready to fly; unfit for an air voyage.
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Examples of "unairworthy" in Sentences

  • The Nimrods were declared unairworthy by the coroner
  • "The Zodiac is perhaps one of the most unairworthy aircraft since the de Havilland Comet ..."
  • "Many repairs are not being done or done properly, and too many flights are leaving the ground in what the FAA calls 'unairworthy', or unsafe, condition," he told USA Today.
  • The shop declared that the aircraft was unairworthy, and couldn't be flown back to New England until the alleged crack was repaired by installing a beef-up kit, a big and very expensive job.
  • As examples of my will not to send aircrew up in unairworthy jets, on one occasion I refused to remove the chocks or disconnect my headset on a running jet, despite the Sqn Ldr in the back yelling at me to do so.
  • Congressman James Oberstar is expected to call a safety hearing, telling CNN "The result of inspection failures, and enforcement failure, has meant that aircraft have flown unsafe, unairworthy, and at the risk of lives."
  • Haddon-Cave is the report on the Nimrod XV230 crash in 2006, which demonstrated that the Nimrod fleet was essentially unairworthy in its entirety and that the engineering and management systems intended to guarantee the safety and effectiveness of the MOD's aircraft.
  • "Many repairs are not being done or done properly, and too many flights are leaving the ground in what the FAA calls 'unairworthy,' or unsafe, condition," says John Goglia, a former airline mechanic who served for eight years on the National Transportation Safety Board.
  • But that was before they learned that the company's president twice had his pilot's license revoked related to his flying of an "unairworthy" aircraft, that the chief executive flopped in his last attempt to start an airline and that the 15-year-old plane itself was damaged in a hailstorm a decade ago and spent most of the past two years mothballed in France."

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