The phrase "airplane attacks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing incidents involving airplanes causing harm or destruction, such as in military or terrorist scenarios.
Example: "The investigation focused on the motives behind the recent airplane attacks that targeted civilian areas."
Alternatives: "aerial assaults" or "aircraft strikes".
It begins with the airplane attacks, then backtracks to the roots and the evolution of terrorism, along with intelligence and security failures.
"It is unconscionable that federal regulators don't require nuclear power plants like Indian Point to defend against airplane attacks," Mr. Cuomo said in a statement.
SINCE Sept. 11, 2001, the war on terrorism has been broadly portrayed as a phenomenon whose battlefronts range from Bali to Baghdad and whose successes and failures are measured in the bloodshed of suicide bombings or airplane attacks.
Whoever planned the airplane attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was knowledgeable about aircraft, architectural engineering, aviation fuel and the characteristics of planes in flight, several experts said yesterday.
Five months after four hijacked passenger airplane attacks, the number of those killed or missing and presumed dead stands at 3,071, according to official figures.
As rescue workers sifted through the dust and debris, some of which is still burning two days after the kamikaze airplane attacks on the twin 110-story towers, Federal Bureau of Investigation officials have identified 50 individuals, mostly of Arab origin, who helped plan or carry out the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In Washington, where building height is limited to 12 stories, an airplane attack on an office building is considered unlikely.
Even so, some would say that New York needs this about as much as it needs another airplane attack.
According to the memorandum, Mr. Reid "claimed to have chosen to attack an airplane because he believed an airplane attack, especially during the holiday season, would cause the American public to lose confidence in airline security and stop traveling, leading to a substantial loss of revenue which would, in turn, hurt the American economy".
The memorandum said Mr. Reid "claimed to have chosen to attack an airplane because he believed an airplane attack, especially during the holiday season, would cause the American public to lose confidence in airline security and stop traveling, leading to a substantial loss of revenue which would, in turn, hurt the American economy".
"We resisted the idea of the literal," Dr. Young said, "that's why you don't get any Big Apples in our designs, or representations of airplanes, attacks, death, blood".
