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Common collocations with plane in American Collocation

plane noun countable

US /pleɪn/

travel somewhere on a plane

catch
get on
jump on
take

Jon immediately caught a plane to Pennsylvania when he heard his mother was sick.

get on a plane

board
get on

He forgot his passport and wasn’t allowed to board the plane.

get off a plane

get off
leave
step off

The heat hit me as I stepped off the plane at Delhi.

arrive too late to get a plane

miss

We almost missed the plane because the car broke down on the way to the airport.

fly a plane

fly
pilot

The pilot was drunk and shouldn’t have been flying the plane.

make a plane come down to the ground

land

She managed to land the plane safely.

take control of a plane illegally while it is flying

hijack

On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked over American skies.

a plane comes down to the ground

arrive
land
touch down

I was asleep and didn’t feel the slight bump as the plane touched down.

a plane leaves the ground and moves up into the sky

take off

At 12:25 our plane took off for Stavanger.

a plane has people or things in it

carry someone/something

A UN plane carrying one U.S. citizen and two Philippine nationals crashed in a field earlier today.

a plane moves through the sky

fly
travel

The plane flew over the city.

a plane hits something by accident

crash

The plane crashed in Wales, killing all on board.