Sentence examples for approaching the runway from inspiring English sources

SmartLanding "has more to do with approaching the runway," Mr. Johnson said.

Being reminded where you are when approaching the runway is crucial because pilots have leeway on where to put the plane down.

Bystanders suggested the plane seemed to be in difficulty before the landing, banking to one side and approaching the runway at an unusually low angle.

Landing systems at the challenging, high-altitude airport have broken down, a diplomat told me, after I described how my plane had struggled to land through the low clouds – approaching the runway and then veering sharply away.

In the recorded exchanges with Medellín airport, a female air traffic controller initially said that Lamia 933 had to wait seven minutes, because another plane had priority due to mechanical problems and was already approaching the runway.

But skies were not entirely friendly yesterday afternoon 15 miles to the east, above South Jersey Regional, whose owner, Steven Snyder, 64, of Moorestown, N.J., was also killed in a crash while approaching the runway in June 1999.

I was in training for a commercial pilot rating at the time so knew our approach to L.A. would be 'different.' The pilot explained we were going out over Malibu (instead of the usual 52-mile straight-in approach) and landing downwind — as people were shooting at planes approaching the runways from the land side.

She approached the runway three times.

The planes approach the runway from the east.

As a plane approaches the runway, sand dunes appear majestically on the horizon.

As the plane approached the runway, I pictured myself in a lunar module, anticipating the impact.