Example sentences for: airliners

How can you use “airliners” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • USA Today leads with a report that because of the general reluctance to fly this coming New Year's Eve, America's domestic airspace will be nearly empty--only 45 airliners will be aloft--when the next millennium hits.

  • Yousef was captured in Pakistan following the discovery by police in the Philippines in January 1995 of the Manila air plot, which envisioned placing bombs on board a dozen trans-Pacific airliners and setting them off simultaneously.

  • After 9/11, some Philippine government officials claimed that while in Philippine custody in February 1995, KSM's Manila air plot co-conspirator Abdul Hakim Murad had confessed having discussed with Yousef the idea of attacking targets, including the World Trade Center, with hijacked commercial airliners flown by U.S.-trained Middle Eastern pilots.

  • The pilots knew their mission was to divert aircraft, but did not know that the threat came from hijacked airliners.

  • The USAT off-lead and the top story in the Wall Street Journal business news index is that later this week, on the heels of a spate of problems with Boeing airliners, the FAA will start a thorough safety inspection of the company's manufacturing plants, focusing on quality control procedures.


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