airliner
Example Sentences
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He was wounded in a raid on a Belgian airliner hijacked by Palestinian militants which landed in Israel in 1972, and fought in the 1973 Middle East war.
From BBC
In 1992, 167 people died when a Pakistani airliner crashed into a rugged Himalayan hill attempting to land at a Kathmandu airport in a rainstorm.
From Washington Post
Fifty-one of 71 people on a Bangladeshi airliner died when it crashed in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the Nepalese capital's hill-ringed airport.
From Reuters
When an Air Canada flight tried to land in San Francisco that month, the plane nearly crashed into four other airliners.
From Washington Post
They skimmed just over the tops of four other airliners waiting to take off.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
