freighter
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The freighter wound up 1,300 feet past the end of Runway 30, its right engine on fire and left engine running.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
A headlong drive for efficiency cut the average time needed to assemble a “Liberty Ship” freighter from around eight months shortly after Pearl Harbor to barely one month by 1945.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The MD-11F freighter operated by UPS, crashed after one of its engines separated from the wing as it was preparing to take off from Louisville.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
In one operation about 35 nautical miles from the small island of Gavdos, off Crete, a coastguard vessel, a Danish freighter and a helicopter took 365 people off a fishing boat, according to the agency.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
Wergin planned to get off in California, but a couple of days into the journey, he found out the freighter was heading directly to Japan.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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