Nose Dive (Noun)
Meaning
A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The pilot's inability to correct the aircraft's instability sent it into a nose dive towards the runway.
- Investigations revealed the cause of the crash to be a nose dive resulting from an engine failure.
- The passengers on board panicked as the aircraft took a sudden nose dive, plummeting rapidly towards the ground.
- As the control systems malfunctioned, the aircraft entered a steep nose dive that could not be reversed in time.
- Pilot error was identified as the main cause of the aircraft's tragic nose dive during its routine training flight.