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President Trump has spent the first major overseas trip of his second administration — next stop Wednesday in Qatar — beating back allegations that he was personally profiting from foreign leaders by accepting a $400-million luxury airliner from the gulf state’s royal family.
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Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
At the end of the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese soldiers swarmed a Pan Am airliner to save themselves from the rapidly-advancing North Vietnamese army.
—David Martin, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, given Boeing’s dismal record of performance problems and cost overruns on both civilian airliners and defense systems like the Osprey aircraft and the KC-46 refueling tanker, accelerating spending on the company’s new F-47 combat aircraft program is not prudent.
—William Hartung, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Earlier in 2025, a military helicopter and commercial airliner collided over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
At the end of the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese soldiers swarmed a Pan Am airliner to save themselves from the rapidly-advancing North Vietnamese army.
—David Martin, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, given Boeing’s dismal record of performance problems and cost overruns on both civilian airliners and defense systems like the Osprey aircraft and the KC-46 refueling tanker, accelerating spending on the company’s new F-47 combat aircraft program is not prudent.
—William Hartung, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Earlier in 2025, a military helicopter and commercial airliner collided over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airliner. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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airliner
noun
air·lin·er
-ˌlī-nər 
: an airplane operated by an airline
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