A physical apparatus for taking measurements may have suffered a transient malfunction.

The story will start like this: Something major in your life suffered a malfunction of some kind.

The fifth sleeper ship, Hispania, suffered a malfunction en route and was abandoned in deep space.

A few minutes before it was scheduled to land at La Florida Airport, the aircraft suffered a malfunction in one of its motors.

But this shuttlecraft had suffered a malfunction, with the result that he could not grapple the receiving mechanism properly.

After a few rounds at an altitude of six hundred meters, the plane suffered a technical malfunction and crashed near Surabaya.

This was the absolutely worst possible time to suffer a malfunction like the one they were witnessing.

During filming, one B-17 suffered a malfunction in its landing gear, forcing it to land on one wheel.

It had been assumed that the ship had suffered a catastrophic malfunction within a relatively short time of leaving the solar system.

All he knew was how to make sure the controls weren't set for a gateway that didn't exist or had suffered a major malfunction.