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down route

down route preposition: away from home base; in the field.

Preposition

down route

  1. Away from home base; in the field.
    • The aircraft was scheduled to operate a freighter flight from London Heathrow Airport to Frankfurt Airport. The aircraft was planned to be operated by two pilots accompanied by an Overseas Engineer (OSE) to provide technical support down route. The pilots arrived at the operator’s Crew Reporting...2022 November 3, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “History of the flight”, in AAIB investigation to Boeing 787-8, G-ZBJB, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2023, page 2

Forms of down route

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Questions about down route

What does down route mean?
Down route means away from home base; in the field.
What part of speech is down route?
Down route is a preposition.

Words near down route in the dictionary

  1. down perms
  2. down quark
  3. down quarks
  4. down round
  5. down rounds
  6. down route
  7. down someone's alley
  8. down south
  9. Down St Mary
  10. down start
  11. down starts

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