jetliner

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Recent Examples of jetliner One of the biggest questions arising from the crash is whether TCAS, a system designed to prevent midair collisions such as this one, failed to warn the pilots of the jetliner in time. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025 The older-model, single-aisle jetliner, a predecessor to the Boeing 737 Max 8, has been really popular throughout its production. Melvin Backman, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2025 Big questions loom over yesterday's crash that killed all but two of the 181 people aboard a South Korean jetliner. Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 30 Dec. 2024 Since uniting last year in a powerful alliance, gangs have opened fire on three U.S. jetliners, shot at a U.N. helicopter, raided the two largest prisons and carried out several massacres. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for jetliner 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jetliner
Noun
  • Nevada takes a crack at it Record high egg prices prompted Nevada lawmakers to unanimously back suspending their cage-free egg law Denver Public Schools sues Trump administration to block immigration raids at schools A Navy jet crashed off the coast of San Diego.
    The Denver Post, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Last month, seven people died, including one in a car on the ground, after a twin-engine medevac jet carrying a child patient and her mother crashed in a neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Crews were still working on recovering the single-engine turboprop plane.
    Alexandra Koch, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The Cessna aircraft, a single-engine turboprop operated by Bering Air, departed from Unalakleet on Thursday around 2:30 p.m., Alaska’s Department of Public Safety said.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Over the years, this aircraft has had more than 21 major accidents and over 64 personnel killed and 93 injured.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • With different aircraft involved in recent aviation accidents, Boyd discussed whether commercial and general aviation vary in safety.
    Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Next will come Barracuda cruise missiles, Roadrunner autonomous twin turbojet vehicles and more.
    Andrew King, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
  • As ramjets forego moving parts like the compressor and turbine components found in traditional turbojets, the design is more compact, lightweight, efficient, and cost-effective to produce.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The freighter encountered 35-foot waves, snow and winds at 51 mph with gusts up to 66 mph.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) icebreaker was attempting to free the freighter Yamal Krechet from ice which was preventing it from reaching the port of Sabetta, in the Kara Sea, according to an expert.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Life in Gaza has been sustained by intermittent convoys of water tankers and trucks with cargoes of plastic bottles.
    Claudine Ebeid, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Recommended The Monitor's View A migrant debate cuts across the Americas When one such tanker was hit and destroyed, the battle group helped evacuate its Filipino crew to safety aboard the USS Eisenhower.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Project hopes to revive commercial supersonic by reducing a jet’s sonic boom.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2020
Noun
  • Workers planned to spend several days fishing the rest of the commercial airliner from the water before trying to retrieve the military helicopter.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Officials have been at the debris site in the river since shortly after the collision between a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating under PSA Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025

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“Jetliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetliner. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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