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airliner

[ air-lahy-ner ]

noun

  1. a passenger aircraft operated by an airline.


airliner

/ ˈɛəˌ±ô²¹Éª²ÔÉ™ /

noun

  1. a large passenger aircraft
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Origin of airliner1

First recorded in 1905–10; air 1 + liner 1
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The documents also implicate Libyan agents in the destruction of a French airliner that crashed in the Sahara desert in 1989, killing another 170 people.

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The Blackhawk that went down recently near Washington D.C. when it collided with a commercial airliner was operating in a training exercise.

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Ten months later, a French airliner, UTA 772, crashed into the desert in Niger as it flew from Chad to Paris.

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Footage of the evacuation showed passengers huddled on the wing of the Boeing airliner, some holding bags, with flames burning near the bottom of the plane.

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Referred to as Masud by Scottish and American investigators, the Libyan is alleged to have confessed to making the device which exploded in the airliner's hold as it flew from London to New York.

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