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Recent Examples of airliner
In 1976, Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, two Cuban exiles, planned the bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner near Barbados that killed all 73 people aboard.
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Kevin A. Young,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
Sunday night, as the airliner bearing the Algerian national team arrived at Kansas City International Airport, a healthy June rain began to fall.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
8 June 2026
Baptising a whole airliner, a 100-vehicle convoy and a team-bonding meal in an empty stadium… World Cup teams have been enjoying some memorable send-offs in the past week.
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Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
4 June 2026
The airliner returned to the skies because the NTSB determined that maintenance workers damaged the plane that crashed while improperly using a forklift to reattach the engine.
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ABC News,
18 May 2026
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Kevin A. Young,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
Sunday night, as the airliner bearing the Algerian national team arrived at Kansas City International Airport, a healthy June rain began to fall.
—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
8 June 2026
Baptising a whole airliner, a 100-vehicle convoy and a team-bonding meal in an empty stadium… World Cup teams have been enjoying some memorable send-offs in the past week.
—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
4 June 2026
The airliner returned to the skies because the NTSB determined that maintenance workers damaged the plane that crashed while improperly using a forklift to reattach the engine.
—
ABC News,
18 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
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Ships, like airplanes, are designed with fluid dynamics in mind, and biofoul seriously messes that up.
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Scenes involving firearms alarmed distributors still grappling with the aftermath of the Columbine massacre, while the film’s October release via Newmarket was further complicated by a trailer prominently featuring an airplane crash just weeks after the September 11 attacks.
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One of his planes was in trouble.
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The day before, 12 people were killed when a plane on a skydiving outing in Missouri crashed.
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From the Dallas Stadium, an unauthorized aircraft cannot come within three nautical miles or fly 3,000 feet ground-to-air.
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Additionally, 42 aircraft were lost or damaged, and 20 military installations were hit, leading to $29 billion in repair costs and an $80 billion supplement request.
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The occasional booing of famous England players has been an integral part of the Wembley experience over the years, almost as commonplace as paper aeroplanes.
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No distractions, no aeroplanes, no noise, no traffic.
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Lands’ statement gives no indication of how NPS officials concluded the liner was cut using a knife of some kind.
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The president said that his administration would have to drain the pool and start over again as the new liner shed chunks of itself.
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The work addresses a longstanding challenge in lightweight airframe design by increasing structural strength and stability without adding unnecessary weight.
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At least that seems to be the message from our winners this year in aviation, where the focus is just as much on technology gains and cabin refinement as on enlarging the airframe.
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For months, shipping companies have been in wait and see mode, carefully calculating the risk of moving ships through the strait.
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Transits tripled to 93 last weekend compared with the prior comparable period, according to ship-tracking data provider MarineTraffic, but remain far below pre-war levels when more than 100 ships transited the strait each day.
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As expected, the ship—wider than and nearly as long a Boeing 777 jetliner—tipped over and exploded in a fireball, putting an exclamation point on V3’s trip halfway around the world from the Texas Gulf Coast.
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No pattern enacted on these buttons will safely land a four-hundred-ton jetliner, flaring and bouncing and settling heavily onto its twenty-two wheels while the spoilers on the wings snap up and the jets scream in reverse and the passengers sigh in relief.
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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