aircraft
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Navy P-8A Poseidon at Keflavik Air Base, one of the maritime patrol aircraft that rotate through Iceland to hunt and track submarines across the North Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“While taxiing at Los Angeles International Airport, a Delta aircraft made contact with an Air Canada aircraft,” according to the Delta statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Japanese authorities are, for example, hard-pressed to conduct an on-site probe into alleged environmental pollution inside the bases and regulate low-altitude flights of their aircraft.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Aviation Minister Festus Keyamo earlier said he had been informed "of the disappearance of a military aircraft with tail number NGR 931, enroute Lagos from Benin at 0913 hours earlier today".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
People often assume there was a shortage of men to fly the available aircraft.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
