planeload

• “Which makes the news, a single automobile death or a planeload of people dead?”

  Palin gives 'stirring' gun rights speech at NRA dinner, says group

• “Precisely at noon, just as Reagan began to recite the oath of office, the planeload of Americans was permitted to take off.”

  The Washington Post: 30 years later, Iran still holds us hostage

• “And so the prime minister will follow the example of Merkel when he lands in South Africa on Monday morning with a planeload of 25 British business leaders.”

  The Guardian: David Cameron joins the new Scramble for Africa – catching up with China

• “Demoralized by the McCarthy witch hunts at the State Department, the embassy staff feared Donovan was invading with a planeload of OSS spooks to take over the diplomatic mission.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wild Bill Donovan

• “The night Gadhafi — then a junior officer who would later promote himself to colonel — ousted King Idriss, the first planeload of official visitors to land in Tripoli was from Egypt.”

  USA Today: Gadhafi leaned on Arab allies to stay in power

• “Readers, remember that in the days after the 9/11 attack -- in which virtually all the perpetrators were of Saudi origin -- the Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar persuaded high-level figures in the Bush administration to allow a planeload of Saudis to leave this country without being questioned by the FBI.”

  The Huffington Post: Len Levitt: Congressman King: The Yahoo Has a Point

• “But, on the other hand, there's nothing like a few carefully marshalled talking heads – Steve Richards was the one waving the ping-pong bats at a planeload of regretful ex-ministers – for putting one's lost luggage into perspective.”

  The Guardian: Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Desert Island Discs; Craig Brown's Lost Diaries

• “He was a pilot and he did fly a planeload of water purifiers and supplies to Haiti in 2005, following a flood that devastated the island.”

  Robert A Decatur

• “It's the second pilot who becomes vital during emergencies — and gives passengers the assurance that if one person has a heart attack or the flu, a planeload of people wouldn't be endangered.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Imagining a Day When Airliners Are Flown Solo

• “We then returned with a planeload of a team of exhausted Miami Fire rescue.”

  TRANSFORMERS 3 Update From Director Michael Bay – Collider.com

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