The word "airliner" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a type of aircraft designed for transporting passengers and cargo commercially. Example: "The airliner took off smoothly, carrying hundreds of passengers to their destination." Alternatives include "commercial aircraft" and "passenger plane."
If needed, it can stay aloft on just one of its four engines.It's that sort of redundancy combined with a remarkable record of commercial airliner safety in the years since the September 11th attacks that makes airlines confident that they don't need to provide parachutes for the passengers.
Senussi's most notorious foreign exploit was masterminding the bombing of a French airliner over Niger in 1989 in which 170 people were killed.
AQAP has been blamed for the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit and for explosives-laden parcels that were intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.
Many Libyans blame him for the massacre of 1,200 inmates at Tripoli's Abu Salem prison, a Paris court has convicted him in absentia for the bombing of a French airliner in 1989, and Scottish police are to interview him over allegations of masterminding the Lockerbie bombing.
He had aroused suspicion after seeking training in flying a civilian airliner.
The airliner was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when contact was lost an hour after take-off.
Mr Moussaoui is being held for carrying a false French passport, but what intrigues investigators is that he took flying lessons in Oklahoma, failed to win a licence to pilot small planes, but still insisted on buying time on a flight simulator for a passenger airliner.
Australia investigated whether large objects observed by satellite in seas south-west of Perth were parts of the airliner.
Boeing has more than 60% of the world's airliner market and sells many aeroplanes in Europe.
Some aircraft designers now believe that just about all the efficiency gains available have been wrung from this traditional shape, and that for a further big cut in fuel consumption a new type of airliner is needed.Over the years, a number of radical redesigns have been proposed, but none has taken off.
According to the Pentagon, Abdul Malik has admitted involvement in the bombing of a hotel in Mombasa and a failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner in 2002.
