aircraft
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As details of the crash emerged in news reports, his heart sank: The plane was a Canadair Regional Jet, or CRJ in airline parlance, the same aircraft that Sam piloted.
Thomas Allan, the acting vice commandant of the Coast Guard, said a shutdown would delay maintenance for boats and aircraft, and halt pay for 56,000 active-duty reserve and civilian personnel.
From Los Angeles Times
Zacharevic said his work had been "unlawfully reproduced" on AirAsia's aircraft without his knowledge or consent and displayed publicly on a plane in operation - one that he saw with his own eyes at an airport.
From BBC
In December, J-15 jets from China's Liaoning aircraft carrier twice locked radar on Japanese aircraft in international waters near Okinawa, according to Japan.
From Barron's
It will be joining the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and nine other warships already operating in the Middle East.
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