Sentence examples for to airliner from inspiring English sources

The secretary, Tom Ridge, also said that 5,000 law enforcement officers who work at immigration and customs would be trained to work as federal air marshals so they could be shifted to airliner duty when the department believed that the hijacking threat was high.

CONTRARY to popular belief, mobile phones do not pose a safety threat to airliners.

Carbon-fibre composites, for instance, are replacing steel and aluminium in products ranging from mountain bikes to airliners.

Clear-air turbulence has not been known to cause aircraft to crash, but serious damage to airliners and many injuries to passengers have been reported.

The ASN "covers accidents and safety issues with regards to airliners, military transport planes and corporate jets", according to its website.

A gun-control group has begun a new campaign against large sniper rifles, asserting that the rifles together with armor-piercing ammunition that bursts into flames on impact pose a serious threat to airliners at airports.

When it comes to airliners, weight is money.

Air traffic control (ATC) towers are an omnipresent feature of modern airports, second in recognition only to airliners themselves.

It took around 60 years to get from the Wright Brothers in 1903 to airliners that had modern levels of risk.

In contrast to airliners, public trains, buses, etc. are rarely fitted with high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters.

But it's very rare for the weather alone to cause airliners to crash, experts say.