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