commuter airliner

It is often used as a private aircraft, a utility, or a small commuter airliner.

The crash was the fifth involving commuter airliners this year.

The two craft were a twin-engine commuter airliner and a small private plane.

Regional airliner industry magazine, concentrating on commuter airliners and their equipment.

A commuter airliner was struck by lightning and crashed today, killing all 21 people aboard, the authorities said.

May 7 - Beechcraft announces its intention to re-enter the commuter airliner market.

A commuter airliner with 16 people aboard crashed near here tonight, and officials said there were at least 12 people seriously injured.

The Dornier 328 is a turboprop-powered commuter airliner.

Last week a commuter airliner and a small private plane collided in the air near Salt Lake City, killing 10 people.

Just before the accident, she confused the Skywest plane with another commuter airliner that was on a taxiway near the end of the runway.

The use of crash-data recorders on turbine-powered commuter airliners will greatly expand, under new rules announced by the Government yesterday.

The Jetstream 41 is the latest addition to British Aerospace's family of regional commuter airliners.

Piper started the design work in 1965 for a twin-engined piston non-pressurised commuter airliner and the prototype first flew on 13 May 1968.

Like any other flight, the small commuter airliner will respond to instructions from air-traffic controllers, navigate a path and take care to avoid other aircraft.

New rules that would greatly expand the use of crash recorders, particularly on smaller commuter airliners, are to be proposed today by the Federal Aviation Administration.

GBA GyroLiner: commuter airliner.

Large and medium-sized passenger airliners were not involved in a single fatal crash, and the fatal accident rate for commuter airliners was the lowest ever.

Six passengers and two pilots aboard the twin-engine commuter airliner were killed, as were the two pilots in the private plane, a single-engine Mooney.

Soon afterward, similar devices could be installed on commuter airliners and on corporate and other private planes, according to Government and industry engineers familiar with the program.

Piper PA-35 Pocono, a twin-engined pressurized commuter airliner produced by Piper Aircraft.

The Bushmaster 2000 was a small commuter airliner built in the United States in an attempt to revive the Ford Trimotor design.

Just two weeks ago, a commuter airliner crashed while trying to land in Buffalo, N.Y., killing all 49 people on the plane and a man on the ground.

But, in the section dealing with smaller commuter airliners, it fell far short of what has been urged by the National Transportation Safety Board and Congressional critics.

The private plane that collided with a Wings West commuter airliner in that accident was a single-engine piston-powered Rockwell Commander, not a jet.