What is "commercial airliner"

Usage examples of "commercial airliner".

He did have his job to do, rechecking fuel and winds and other technical data necessary for the successful flight of a commercial airliner, all the things the passengers never saw, assuming that the flight crew just showed up and turned it on as though it were a taxicab.

Call me crazy, but it's this nutty idea I get when I buckle up in a commercial airliner that my captain probably isn't going to kidnap me today.

We put the Rabbit family aboard a commercial airliner to take them—.

The shoot-down of a commercial airliner could then be used to justify the continuation of CIA activities.

Dickey and Ed Shad, reported seeing a commercial airliner make a regular approach to the National Airport in about the same area of the sky.

He had wanted to use it to transport the ISEG from Muscat to Incirlik, but Dan Robertson had sent him a coded e-mail explaining that the USAF Spec Ops people wanted to change out the pilots for the new mission and the new crew had to practice flying the commercial airliner without the tail cone and with the rear hatch opened as it would be for parachute inserts.

CINCLANT made an appointment with the Chief of Naval Operations for the following morning, and his deputy intelligence chief boarded a commercial airliner for a quick trip to Pearl Harbor, to meet with his opposite number in the Pacific.

On a different sort of flight, a commercial airliner, perhaps, where conversation might have been possible, they'd trade jokes, stories of amorous conquests, talk about home and family and plans for the future, but the noise of the C-141 denied them that, and so they traded brave smiles that hung under guarded eyes, each man alone with his thoughts and fears, needing to share them and deflect them, but unable to in the noisy cargo compartment of the Starlifter.

They would fly in by commercial airliner, landing in Melbourne or Orlando.

There was an awkward sort of grace in her flight through the sky, the reason she had been affectionately known as the Tin Goose, the most successful commercial airliner of her time.

The whine of the jet engines interrupted his reverie and he looked up, holding his hand to shield his eyes from the glare of the cobalt blue sky, sighting a commercial airliner cruising serenely ahead of its long white contrails.