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The state sponsored a similar meeting last year with Airbus, the manufacturer of commercial airliners.
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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2025
That included the 1983 shooting down of a Korean airliner with 270 people aboard by a Soviet fighter plane, and the deadly 1986 explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear plant, which Soviet authorities denied for several days.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
In the 1950s, the British introduced the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Getty Images The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday made an urgent call to permanently restrict helicopter flights in certain areas around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport following January’s deadly collision of an airliner and Army Black Hawk helicopter.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2025
That included the 1983 shooting down of a Korean airliner with 270 people aboard by a Soviet fighter plane, and the deadly 1986 explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear plant, which Soviet authorities denied for several days.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
In the 1950s, the British introduced the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner.
—Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Getty Images The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday made an urgent call to permanently restrict helicopter flights in certain areas around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport following January’s deadly collision of an airliner and Army Black Hawk helicopter.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airliner. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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airliner
noun
air·lin·er
-ˌlī-nər 
: an airplane operated by an airline
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