Sentence examples for hit a runway from inspiring English sources

The first time, taking off in a Hurricane fighter plane in the Western Desert, he hit a runway obstruction.

The captain of the Southwest Airlines jet that hit a runway at La Guardia Airport in July 2013 may have been making major adjustments to the controls too close to the ground, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

For reasons still unknown, the plane veered hard right off the Santa Monica Airport runway after touchdown, hit a runway sign and crashed into a storage hanger, bursting into flames and collapsing the building.

On Feb. 25, a plane landing at Jackson Hole, Wyo., skidded past the end of a runway and hit a snow bank.

It went off the runway, hit a concrete barrier and burst into flames, Andrianova said.

John Wildey said he touched down with a "right bump" and described how he nearly veered off the runway and hit a wall.

Preliminary reports have offered the theory that as the plane raced down the runway, it hit a metal strip that ruptured a tire and sent debris hurtling toward a fuel tank, setting off a fire and a fuel leak.

Wednesday evening, an American Airlines plane hit an icy patch on a runway at O'Hare and slid sideways into the grass, The Associated Press reported.

The strikes hit an area near the runway without damaging it, but caused some damage to nearby civilian homes.

A small jet carrying media mogul Lewis Katz and six others appeared to not make it off the ground as it tried to take off from a Massachusetts airport and instead veered off the runway, hit an antenna and a fence and crashed into a gully, investigators said Sunday.

Elsewhere, a Ryanair passenger jet with 129 people on board skidded off a runway after hitting a patch of ice.