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The problem was the damaged airplane’s inability to slow and its limited ability to bank to the left, a condition compounded by poor visibility aft from the cockpit, and burdened by the controller’s chatter as well as a chorus of automated alarms triggered by the airplane’s necessarily unusual configuration.
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- adverb At, in, toward, or close to the stern of a vessel or the rear of an aircraft or spacecraft.
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- She had a single mast, and what seemed to be a neat, closed cabin aft, and three crewmen were poling her inshore with easy, light touches, and waiting to moor her alongside as soon as there was room. — St. Peter's Fair
- The space aboard was well organised, the cabin aft rode low, but the full width of the hull, and though Emma had to stoop her neat head to enter, stepping down to the lower level within, she and her uncle would have had room within for sleeping. — St. Peter's Fair
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The problem was the damaged airplane’s inability to slow and its limited ability to bank to the left, a condition compounded by poor visibility aft from the cockpit, and burdened by the controller’s chatter as well as a chorus of automated alarms triggered by the airplane’s necessarily unusual configuration.
— William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash
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- Middle English afte, back, from Old English æftan, behind; see apo- in Indo-European roots.
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