altitude
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It was an unstable ride, with the plane’s altitude rising and falling some 500 feet as they made their way to Tabuk Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The dive is arrested and the jet gains about 5,000 feet in altitude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Passengers described rushing the cockpit and a fight for control after the plane suddenly plummeted -- losing around 17,000 feet of altitude in the span of a minute, according to the Flightradar24 website.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The fatal crash was, with a high degree of probability, attributable to a situation from which there was no escape, resulting from insufficient lift and the low altitude above the ground," it said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
That I proposed to climb to the cruising altitude of an Airbus 300 jetliner struck me, at that moment, as preposterous, or worse.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Meteorologists use the term "tilt" to describe the separation between a tropical cyclone's circulation centers at lower and middle altitudes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
They came from different words and lived at different altitudes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Earlier in the day, Kryvyi Rih Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said the Russian drones were flying at "extremely low altitudes", describing the attackers as "animals".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Farther above, at altitudes of several hundred kilometers, traces of Earth's upper atmosphere can still exert enough drag to slow satellites.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
The range of altitudes in the Fertile Crescent meant staggered harvest seasons: plants at higher elevations produced seeds somewhat later than plants at lower elevations.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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