flight path

Recently two staff members watching on monitors tracked the flight path of a small airplane flying itself above northern California, about 40 miles away.

Civilian parachutes meant that he might free-fall away from the flight path before pulling the rip cord, and this signaled: A tail plane will be useless.

International Airport flight path and have to contend with both helicopters and the earsplitting sonic reality of jets landing and taking off.

Experts had previously speculated that birds could have caused the crash, but the report said that "no significant bird activity" was observed in the vicinity of the plane's flight path.

Although the briefing provided timings for certain events, the map showing the bombers' journey wasn't a specific flight path and differed slightly in two versions presented.