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The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea’s Muan airport, the transport ministry said on Saturday.
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Reuters, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
Mohammed is due to enter his plea Friday morning in the attacks, in which 19 al-Qaida hijackers smashed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another crashed into a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people.
—Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
This means the air temperature at 30,000 feet, which is around the average altitude of an airliner in mid-flight, was about minus 88 degrees.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
At another point, a surface-to-air missile takes out a passenger airliner, something that really happened — but the attack is as purposeless here as the tragic original event, other than to remind us that Valet, who surveys the wreckage for valuables, is a degenerate.
—Boris Fishman, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Reuters, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
Mohammed is due to enter his plea Friday morning in the attacks, in which 19 al-Qaida hijackers smashed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and another crashed into a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people.
—Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
This means the air temperature at 30,000 feet, which is around the average altitude of an airliner in mid-flight, was about minus 88 degrees.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
At another point, a surface-to-air missile takes out a passenger airliner, something that really happened — but the attack is as purposeless here as the tragic original event, other than to remind us that Valet, who surveys the wreckage for valuables, is a degenerate.
—Boris Fishman, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airliner. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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airliner
noun
air·lin·er
-ˌlī-nər 
: an airplane operated by an airline
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