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Recent Examples of midairThe company’s troubles began escalating with a dramatic midair incident on January 9, 2024, when a cabin side panel detached from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 during Flight 1282.—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 For Flight 8 in particular, the engines shut down unexpectedly minutes after launch, causing the spacecraft to essentially fall apart and self-destruct in midair.—Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 28 May 2025 Aerial intercepts—if conducted in an unsafe or unprofessional manner—can lead to midair collisions, resulting in the loss of aircraft and aircrew.—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025 As Marlowe watched, the catch hurtled from midair to the ground.—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for midair
The European Space Agency telescope is designed to make a 3D map of the universe by looking at billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away across one third of the sky.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
Missiles fired from Iran are pictured in the night sky over Jerusalem on June 14, 2025.
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