Sentence examples for nearest runway from inspiring English sources

Aircraft can pick up the beacon almost immediately on takeoff and follow it away from the Howard Beach houses about half a mile from the end of the nearest runway.

Something malfunctioned, Goodfellow surmised, and a sharp turn to the left made in the flight's first hour was, in fact, a swift attempted re-route by the pilot to the nearest runway on which he could land: a 13,000-foot strip on Pulau Langkawi, the largest island in an archipelago of 104 in the Andaman Sea.

It's not necessarily fatal, if the pilots can get their oxygen masks on in time, something they train for, but if they were knocked out, it would explain the lack of a mayday call or any obvious attempt to steer the stricken aircraft to the nearest runway.

Appearing as a sort of pied piper, Butler is often pursued at these events by those seeking hidden knowledge before disappearing with the nearest runway model.

When he couldn't make it back, Ford had to put the aircraft down on Venice's Penmar Golf Course, about 800 feet southwest of the nearest runway, according to the report.

They found airport contributions of up to 15% of total oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) at a site 1.5 km downwind of the nearest runway.

A separate team is working on location in the field near runway 18R, where the plane hit the ground and smashed into three pieces.

Plane gets stuck in verge near runway Jump to media player A Emirates Boeing 777 aircraft which was about to take off from Birmingham Airport got stuck as it taxied to the runway.

Los Angeles International Airport has its own super bloom near runway 24R.

Those who lack silence in their lives tend to be the politically weak, whether the poor (investment bankers don't live near runways) or laborers or soldiers or prisoners or children.

The passengers were saved only by the skill of the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, who managed to ditch the plane safely in the Hudson river.At the moment, attempts to deal with the problem mostly involve efforts to cull flocks of the larger species geese in particular in the vicinity of airports, and also the use of bird scarers to try to drive off those actually sitting near runways.