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Minutes after takeoff, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired two surface-to-air missiles at the civilian airliner, killing everyone aboard.
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Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
The airliner is the kit sponsor of some of the most prominent soccer clubs in the world—Arsenal, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Benfica—and is the title sponsor of England’s FA Cup.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they weren’t added to the big airliners until the late 1980s, they were invented more than a century earlier.
—Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
Boeing has been working on retrofitting 747s that were originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner.
—Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
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Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
The airliner is the kit sponsor of some of the most prominent soccer clubs in the world—Arsenal, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Benfica—and is the title sponsor of England’s FA Cup.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they weren’t added to the big airliners until the late 1980s, they were invented more than a century earlier.
—Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
Boeing has been working on retrofitting 747s that were originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner.
—Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airliner. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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airliner
noun
air·lin·er
-ˌlī-nər 
: an airplane operated by an airline
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