fuselage
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The April 17 engine blowout on a flight from New York to Dallas sent debris from the engine cowling into parts of the jet’s wing and fuselage, breaking a window and killing passenger Jennifer Riordan. — Doug Cameron, WSJ, "Southwest Completes Engine Inspections," 16 May 2018 The behemoth, twin-fuselage Stratolaunch jet lifted off from Mojave Air and Space Port and climbed into the desert sky 70 miles (112 kilometers) north of Los Angeles. — John Antczak, The Seattle Times, "Giant Stratolaunch aircraft lifts off from California," 13 Apr. 2019 Central to the investigations is a sensor located on the plane's fuselage, which reportedly fed inaccurate data into the cockpit of Lion Air Flight 610, warning that the aircraft's tail was too high. — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, "Report: Boeing Charged Extra for Safety Features Tied to 737 Max Crashes," 21 Mar. 2019 Shortages of fuselages, engines and other parts have slowed Boeing’s output since last summer. — Robert Wall, WSJ, "Boeing, Airbus Miss 2018 Jet Delivery Targets," 8 Jan. 2019 Engine debris damaged the jet's fuselage, wing and tail, according to the NTSB. — Thom Patterson, CNN, "Southwest emergency landing puts focus on engine safety," 18 Apr. 2018 The jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Pensacola, Florida, after parts of the left engine broke apart, damaging the fuselage, wing and tail. — Julie Johnsson, chicagotribune.com, "Southwest rushes engine checks amid first-of-its-kind crisis," 18 Apr. 2018 One issue this creates: air forces can no longer hang missiles, bombs, and fuel tanks off the wings of stealth aircraft, instead hiding them inside internal bays built into the fuselage. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "A New Weapons Rack Just Increased the F-35’s Missiles by 50 Percent," 3 May 2019 The Mi-26 was huge, with a fuselage of 110 feet long and a maximum overall length, with rotors spinning, of 131 feet. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "Russia Is Still Selling the World’s Largest Helicopter, 40 Years After First Flight," 16 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fuselage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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