Sentence examples for poor runway from inspiring English sources
Comair later accepted responsibility for the crash, but also placed blame on the airport, for what it called poor runway signs and markings, and the Federal Aviation Administration, which had only one air traffic controller on duty, contrary to a memo it had previously issued to have two workers on overnight shifts.
The airline said cancellations have been much higher than usual because of a combination of strike action, poor weather, runway closures at Gatwick and air traffic congestion.
Useful for short runways.
Having a continuous upper surface to the wing (as in the high-wing layout) can improve the L/D ratio and keeps the engines at a higher distance from the ground, thereby avoiding debris from poor or unpaved runways.
But like previous statements by aviation-ministry officials giving specific reasons for the disasters, such as poor weather or bad runway lighting, the minister's comments enraged Nigerians.
Lucas has sent poor Halibut out on the runway, and the irony makes for an engaging bit of narrative tension.
Italian investigators confirmed in a statement that the radar, which would have usually been used to track planes on the runway in such poor visibility, had not been operational.
The traffic cone system, for example, would avoid accidents like the Singapore Airlines crash 16 months ago in Taipei, where a pilot hampered by poor visibility chose the wrong runway and made his nighttime takeoff roll into a concrete barrier and a construction crane.
The episode was entitled "Deadly Reputation" due to the poor reputation the airport (and specifically the runway) has among pilots.
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.
