1.   And when one student attempted a landing in a single-engine Cessna, the other became frightened and began loudly praying to Allah.

2.   As we attempted our landing, the waves crested and tumbled us like a washing machine as they broke apart and dissolved into the sand.

3.   Authorities said the pilot of the commercial flight, warned about drizzle and heavy fog at the Piedras Negras airport, attempted two landings before crashing.

4.   Black declined to speculate whether the crew should have attempted the landing in heavy weather.

5.   Greg Feith, NTSB accident investigator-in-charge at the scene, said investigators also were trying to determine which pilot attempted the landing.

6.   Had they not attempted the landing, the spacecraft would have been switched off, while remaining in orbit around Eros.

7.   It will be the first attempt by any country to attempt a landing at one of the Martian poles.

8.   Q. News reports about a passenger jet forced to make an emergency landing said it had to dump fuel before attempting the landing.

9.   The crew then announced it would attempt another landing, flew over the airport and headed off to the northeast.

10.   Pilots were told to divert planes to other airports when weather conditions deteriorate and were explicitly forbidden from attempting landings during storms, he said.