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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
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In this case, preparing for war meant shipping designs, sample parts, and airplane prototypes to CanCar’s factory at Fort William late in 1938.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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In 1952, a case known as United States v. Reynolds went before the Supreme Court, in which the widows of three civilian crew members who were killed in a U.S. military airplane crash sued the government to obtain the accident investigation report.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2025
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Charging a power bank on the plane by plugging it into the seat’s USB outlet is also prohibited, according to the new regulations.—
Kathleen Magramo,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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This Lego Marvel set includes minifigures of Captain America, Falcon, Red Hulk, and Ruth Bat-Seraph, as well as a jet plane with two stud shooters.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of more than 900 African-American military pilots and airmen who flew combat aircraft in World War II.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Mar. 2025
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According to Southwest, the passengers were accommodated on another aircraft for their flight to Albany, and no injuries were reported.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
21 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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In one example of China’s Cosco Shipping, which generated $6.7 billion in net profit in 2024, McCown highlighted that one vessel traversing the West Coast would cost the liner $3.5 million per port call.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Mar. 2025
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The breathable and form-fitting Nylon/Spandex liner is coated with nitrile (a synthetic rubber) for protection and grip.—
Nora Taylor,
Architectural Digest,
24 Mar. 2025
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Despite the innovations in technology and design, hypersonic applications for commercial aircraft are in their infancy, with both engines and airframes remaining years away from implementation in that category.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
22 Mar. 2025
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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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The strikes come amid a new, dangerous cycle of escalation in the Middle East in which Ansar Allah has resumed its long-range offensive against Israel and ships navigating the Red Sea and surrounding waters.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Reds seemed to right the ship with four wins and a draw in their next five matches, but even those were questionable.—
Brett Koremenos,
The Athletic,
21 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 2 Apr. 2025.
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