plane
Example Sentences
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Gate agents explain that my wheelchair needs to be stowed under the plane, which takes time.
Beijing has amassed such a formidable arsenal of missiles that concentrating combat planes in one or two well-known locations almost anywhere in the region would put them in danger of being wiped out.
Strip mining leveled ridgelines so flat you could land a plane on them.
From Salon
Flights at Kittila airport in northern Finland were grounded after heavy winds pushed a passenger jet and a smaller plane off the runway and into a bank of snow, the Helsinki Times reported.
From BBC
Runways need extra clearing, planes need further de-icing, air traffic controllers are stretched thin and flight crews time out.
From Salon
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