However, the Oxford English Dictionary (1989) gives only the French
Latinate derivation.

Funnily enough, the Shorter Oxford (1993) gives only the French Greek
derivation

(G planos = wandering)

There must be blood on the floor after Lesley Brown and the boys
settled that one!

Or perhaps you were looking at "plane" and not at "aeroplane"?

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