I looked up, to watch the plane with the black crosses on its wings regain altitude.

Subsequently, the plane regained altitude, climbing several thousand feet, but slowing to the point it could no longer remain airborne.

Now he had lost too much buoyancy, and could not regain altitude.

Despite the heavy gunfire, the kamikaze regained altitude, turned, and came in from a 45-degree angle forward.

But then the figure straightened out, regained altitude, and winged back.

As the plane regained altitude, the elder scientist noticed that Tom looked worried.

The pilot would not have had power to regain altitude if he both pulled up and turned around that quickly.

Some accounts from the scene seem to indicate that the plane lost and then tried to regain altitude before crashing.

They started to rappel to the sea as the zeppelin began to regain altitude.

The plane was seen skimming the water, apparently in an attempt to regain altitude, before the crash.