A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly.
1She found herself in a small air pocket, perhaps ten paces wide.
2The sledge bucked and bounced across the floor of the air pocket.
3The thapter hit an air pocket, rolled, and she almost fell out.
4There is a possibility, however remote it could be, of an air pocket.
5Gretchen had survived because she'd been pressed into an air pocket.
6Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wall panels trap the sun's heat in an air pocket.
7The Pelican hit an air pocket, dropped like a rock, and caught itself.
8Better check in case someone's trapped in an air pocket.
9On first use, the heel did have an air pocket.
10He survived in an air pocket under tonnes of rubble.
11The air pocket is not over eight or ten feet.
12By instinct I'd cupped a palm around my mouth to create an air pocket.
13He said that he had found an air pocket where he survived by drinking water.
14There's a large air pocket right beneath the lander.
15The base plate is fairly thin in some places and underneath there's an air pocket.
16Either they struck an air pocket, or the rudder was given too sudden a twist.