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Recent Examples of airliner
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday said the Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a PSA Airlines CRJ700 airliner on Jan. 29, killing 67, was flying too high.
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Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
The aircraft is the precursor to the development of Boom’s supersonic commercial airliner, Overture.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after several airliners on approach to land at Washington Reagan National Airport Saturday morning received what appear to be false alarms from their onboard Traffic Collision Avoidance System.
—Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
For commercial airliners, helicopters or fighter jets, the stakes are different.
—Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
The aircraft is the precursor to the development of Boom’s supersonic commercial airliner, Overture.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after several airliners on approach to land at Washington Reagan National Airport Saturday morning received what appear to be false alarms from their onboard Traffic Collision Avoidance System.
—Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
For commercial airliners, helicopters or fighter jets, the stakes are different.
—Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
Noun
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None of his employees knows how to manage an airplane, Wang replied.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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A bit where Daffy and Porky launch their own ride-share service ends with them stuffing a customer into the landing gear of an airplane, only for the poor guy to fall to his death immediately after take-off.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2025
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The plane was built in 2012 with an engine from CFM International.—
TIME,
TIME,
14 Mar. 2025
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Passengers stand on the wing of an American Airlines plane as they are evacuated at Denver International Airport on Thursday.—
Jay Blackman,
NBC News,
14 Mar. 2025
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An aircraft alledgedly carrying US businessman Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Nuuk, Greenland on January 7, 2025.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
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Instead, Ukraine’s military was able to reposition matériel to avoid Russian strikes and shoot down a troop transport aircraft.—
The Editors,
National Review,
11 Mar. 2025
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It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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Environmental advocates say liner systems can fail when damaged by earthquakes or extreme heat.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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And Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok, in response to Rupar’s video, passionately defended the veep against the liner allegations, responding to multiple comments on X (a.k.a. Twitter).—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The two argued that advances in composite airframe construction would allow lighter supersonic aircraft that would generate less of a boom than the pioneering Concorde airliner, recommending that the FAA rewrite those rules to restrict sound, not speed.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
10 Feb. 2025
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That work is usually divided into three categories, covering the airframe — or body, wings and tail of a plane — the engine and various other components.—
Niraj Chokshi,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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In separate raids on Crimean anchorages in February, May and June 2024, the USVs sank a corvette, a landing ship, a patrol boat and a tugboat.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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The service tallied 296 battle force ships (aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious ships, and logistics and support ships) in December.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
8 Mar. 2025
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That same year, the British De Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jetliner, made its debut.—
David Nikel,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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Onishi served as a commercial pilot in Japan, flying Boeing 767 jetliners, and Peskov is an experienced commercial 757 pilot.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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