Sentence examples for airliner off from inspiring English sources

They accuse Mr Posada, an elderly Cuban exile, of one of the most notorious crimes in recent Latin American history: the bombing of a Cuban airliner off Barbados in 1976 in which all 73 people on board died.

After moving into the South China Sea, turbulence produced by the storm resulted in an aviation incident involving a commercial airliner off the western Philippines.

When CIA man Michael Osbourne is called in to investigate the terrorist bombing of an airliner off the coast of Long Island, there is one relevant clue that drives him: a body near the crash site with three bullet holes in its face.

The Tatarstan Airlines airliner had taken off from Moscow an hour before the crash at about 19 20 local time (15:20 GMT).

PARIS — More than 150 people were killed Wednesday afternoon when an airliner taking off en route to a Canary Islands resort swerved off the end of a runway at Madrid's airport, crashed and burst into flames, Spanish officials said.

How and why did the airliner go off course?

WHEN an airliner takes off for a transatlantic flight it needs to carry some 80 tonnes of fuel, which accounts for around one-fifth of its weight.

That attack took place after terrorists aimed shoulder-fired missiles at an Israeli airliner taking off from Mombasa's airport, but missed.

That attack took place after terrorists had aimed shoulder-fired missiles at an Israeli airliner taking off from Mombasa airport, but missed their target.

Russia suspended all flights to the country after the October crash, while Britain cancelled flights to Sharm El-Sheikh, the Red Sea resort from which the airliner took off.

The accident was the third at La Guardia in less than five years involving an airliner taking off, and the second in two years on a snowy night on the same runway, Runway 13.