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Air Force One also looks remarkably different from a commercial airliner on the inside.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
An entire flashback episode with Xavier's father exists to establish that Xavier is obsessed with planes (his grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman, and his father flew commercial airliners) and has his pilot's license.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Luckily, most of the plane's occupants were well enough to self-evacuate from the upturned airliner, according to Toronto Airport Fire Chief Todd Aitken.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
Things worsened when the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked airliners bound for New York and London, landing three of them at a remote airstrip in Jordan in September, 1970.
—Ephrat Livni, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2025
An entire flashback episode with Xavier's father exists to establish that Xavier is obsessed with planes (his grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman, and his father flew commercial airliners) and has his pilot's license.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Luckily, most of the plane's occupants were well enough to self-evacuate from the upturned airliner, according to Toronto Airport Fire Chief Todd Aitken.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2025
Things worsened when the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked airliners bound for New York and London, landing three of them at a remote airstrip in Jordan in September, 1970.
—Ephrat Livni, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airliner. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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airliner
noun
air·lin·er
-ˌlī-nər 
: an airplane operated by an airline
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