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airliner

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An airliner is a type of aircraft for transporting passengers and air cargo . Such aircraft are most often operated by airlines . Although the definition of an airliner can vary from country to country, an airliner is typically defined as an aircraft intended ...

Usage examples of airliner.

German pioneer of physical chemistry and electrochemistry, and queen of the mighty passenger and light-freight fleet of luxury airliners working out of Berlin, Baden-Baden, and Bremerhaven.

His next-door neighbor stared out of the window as the Aegean Sea passed beneath them and the airliner left the sunny spring of the eastern Mediterranean for the snow-capped peaks of the Dolomites and the Bavarian Alps.

AM this morning a hijacked Boeing 767 airliner struck the north tower of the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, setting it ablaze.

Shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center, a third hijacked airliner crashed into the Pentagon, tearing a huge hole in the west side of military headquarters.

The truth was that a commercial airliner was controlled by a network of extraordinarily sophisticated electronicsdozens of computer systems, linked together by hundreds of miles of wiring.

Why blow up a busload of common folks when the same munitions could knock an airliner from the sky?

Surely an airliner flies lower and slower than a SCUD and presents a better target.

An airliner would be a sitting duck for any one of these, let alone four.

October 4 a Tu-154 airliner with 78 Israeli citizens aboard was accidently shot down over the Black Sea by a Ukrainian S-200 missile.

By this point a lot of people had dropped out of the flight, but we were determined to see what would ultimately happen, with a lot of smart money betting that this would become the first commercial airliner ever to be sucked into a black hole.

He sat trying not to stare at the idle trees beside the canal, nor to trace the progress across the window frame of the procession of lazy airliners, losing height for London Airport.

The airliner, a Boeing 727 operated by a small Colorado firm named ScotAir, was originally headed for Washington National Airport.

We couldn't get any money, elevators would stop, hospitals would shut down, even sophisticated airliners would come out of the sky because their engines won't run without their computer controls.

In 1960, the fastest commercial airliners flew at five hundred knots and ten thousand meters, carrying perhaps a hundred passengers.

The new steel-shelled structures, sleek as airliners, mingled with the buildings of the twenties, which were usually topped off by some impression of bygone architectural styles-Gothic spires, Italianate cupolas, or even one that had a glimmering helmet of cerulean tile, an allusion to a Middle Eastern mosque.