"civilian" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Shoulder-fired missiles are a threat to civilian jetliners, but putting antimissile defenses on planes is far too expensive to be practical now, according to a study by the RAND Corporation.
- Since January 2004, the Department of Homeland Security has invested $6 million to have plans drawn up for on-board antimissile systems for civilian jetliners.
- Scheduled passenger flights are unlikely to be affected by the Pentagon's commandeering of 38 civilian jetliners.
- On July 3, a United States warship mistook an Iranian civilian jetliner for an Iranian fighter plane and blew it out of the sky with a heat-seeking missile.
- The need for an improved system was demonstrated by the downing in July of an Iranian civilian jetliner by the Navy cruiser Vincennes in the Persian Gulf.
- The Malaysian Defence Ministry, reiterated by various netizens, also pointed out the fact that chartering civilian jetliners are also a common practice in other countries, including those of NATO.
- Had the accord been in effect in 1983, it might have prevented the shooting down of a South Korean civilian jetliner by a Soviet fighter.
- The evidence seized by the West German authorities showed that group members were well on the way to bombing a civilian jetliner.
- Military officials said Captain Rogers was uncertain about the identity of the target and was concerned that it might be a civilian jetliner.
- Administration officials said the previously undisclosed incident helps explain why the captain of the Vincennes thought he might be facing an attack from an F-14 on Sunday, when he shot down a civilian jetliner.
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