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mid-flight

adjective

  1. during a flight; whilst airborne

    doors opening mid-flight

    a mid-flight celebration

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. in mid-flight
    during a flight; whilst airborne
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Qatar Airways says an internal review has found that its crew "acted quickly, appropriately and professionally" when they placed the body of a woman who died mid-flight next to an Australian couple.

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A string of incidents in recent years involving the Boeing 737 Max aircraft has also attracted significant attention in the media and on social media, especially after a door blew out mid-flight in January 2024.

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It’s like a mini sensory deprivation pod, perfect for catching some z’s mid-flight.

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"Most hummingbirds drink while they're hovering mid-flight," said Rico-Guevara, who is also curator of ornithology at the UW's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

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The prospect also recalls some of the most shameful and chaotic episodes of the Trump administration, like the day of the Muslim ban, when Trump invalidated visa paperwork that had been assembled over many months and at great cost by arrivals from Syria, Sudan, Iran, and four other Muslim-majority countries—some of them mid-flight.

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