The phrase "airliner by" is not grammatically correct or commonly used in written English.
It is unclear what meaning the phrase is trying to convey. It is possible that the intended phrase is "powered by," which is used to describe what provides the energy or force for something. Example: "The new airplane was powered by state-of-the-art jet engines, making it faster and more fuel-efficient than any airliner by traditional means."
But President Obama halted any further transfers after the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner by a Yemeni-based branch of Al Qaeda on Dec. 25, 2009.
Both PETN and a syringe were used in the failed bombing last Christmas of a Detroit-bound airliner by the so-called "underpants bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
His motive, "60 Minutes" said, was to avenge the mistaken shooting down of an Iranian airliner by a United States Navy cruiser five months earlier.
It was over the Aleutians shortly thereafter that the passing Korean Air Lines plane tried unsuccessfully to raise the airliner by radio, according to the captain.
Mr. Jackson died hours after he called a news conference in Everett to deplore the downing of a South Korean airliner by a Soviet fighter plane.
"For them, what they are against is the kind of government who shoots an airplane full of innocent passengers," he said, referring to the 1988 downing of an Iranian airliner by an American naval vessel.
Locked cockpit doors have been a familiar safety feature of most international airlines since the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings, when the seizure of four airliners by terrorists pointed up the potential danger of allowing outsiders into the cockpit.
These missiles have been used with deadly effect against airliners by separatist groups in former Soviet republics.
The Soviets and the Americans had both recently shot down civilian airliners by accident (KAL Flight 007, in 1983, and Iran Air Flight 655, in 1988, respectively), and so the risks to aviation posed by irresponsible proxies seemed very real.
AIRBUS has thrown itself into the debate about comfort in modern airliners by calling for a minimum seat width of 18 inches in long-haul economy cabins.Why is the planemaker piping up now?
Some held signs that read, "Khai is another Saddam Hussein". Khai, 71, arrived Sunday morning and stopped first at Boeing's plant in Renton, south of Seattle, to oversee the purchase of four 787 airliners by Vietnam Airlines.
