Are those modal verbs OK?
Just hanging around with those tricky verbs they call 'modals'. Could you please check these for sentences below?

Look at the photo and talk about what might, may, could, must or can't have (a white aircraft is on the water).

1. The aircraft might have started to learn swimming
2. The plane may have crushed because of the pilot's drunk state but more likely that the bad weather conditions caused the sky accident
3. The pilot cant have taken control over the craft, he must have lost it.
4. The aircraft might have decided to take a sunbath because it had considered itself too white

Question

Are those modal verbs OK?
Just hanging around with those tricky verbs they call 'modals'.  Could you please check these for sentences below?

Look at the photo and talk about what might, may, could, must or can't have  (a white aircraft is on the water).

1. The aircraft might have started to learn swimming 
2. The plane may have crushed because of the pilot's drunk state but more likely that the bad weather conditions caused the sky accident 
3. The pilot cant have taken control over the craft, he must have lost it. 
4. The aircraft might have decided to take a sunbath because it had considered itself too white

Answer

1. The aircraft might have started to learn to swim 
2. The plane may have crashed because of the pilot's drunk state but it is more likely that the bad weather ..../ more likely, the bad weather conditions caused the air accident 
3. The pilot can't have had (any) control over the craft; he must have lost it. 
4. The aircraft might have decided to sunbathe because it had considered itself too white/pale.

I am assuming that anthropomorphism in 1 and 4 is deliberate.  Good efforts. Your uses of modals were totally correct.

Answer

А white aircraft is on the water. The question form does not allow to add any photos there.

Answer

Wow!

Am I the only one that thinks this needs a grammar check and a reality check?

By the way, what photo?

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