plane
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An Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport a week ago, crashing into nearby vehicles and skidding to a stop 1,300 feet past the runway with its right engine on fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The plane remains in the lake as emergency crews work to remove it, the office added.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The next day, at dawn, Cerimedo was arrested as he was about to board a plane to Buenos Aires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Beechcraft K35 single-engine plane lost power as it approached Wausau Downtown Airport around 8:50 p.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Not a whole plane appearing and disappearing, but a person. A man.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Dale Hipkiss, from NH, said the top layer of the road surface had been planed away because of extensive damage caused by the spilled fuel.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
The wood-framed walls and beams were planed to feel as soft to the touch as satin sheets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
Every time we managed to summit a dune, following a sand ridge perfectly planed by the wind and sinking with each step, another beckoned us ahead.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
Firefighters planed to use bulldozers to create fire lines protecting Wawona, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
A flock of pintail ducks planed down over the papyrus marsh and vanished among the reeds.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
"Everybody is frustrated that we didn't get long planing runs," Carroll said on the slipway as Bluebird was towed back into the engineering tent for the final time.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
But children 16 and older can work in Wisconsin planing mills like the Florence Hardwoods facility where Shuls was pinned.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Lepore plans to work with a blind artist in the future, and the institute is planing an art gallery for the blind and visually impaired, featuring artists and guest curators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
The process typically involves painstakingly planing the organisms off the boat, before processing waste through a complex filtration system.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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