Sentence examples for runway area from inspiring English sources

Still, they managed to tie the raft to the pier and walk onto the runway area.

Aircraft may overrun the runway area during takeoff and landing, leading to accidental aircraft damage and loss of life.

The same runway area could not be used for concurrent competitions, so the long jump was delayed 40 minutes.

There also were proposals to add 22 acres to the runway area by filling in part of the Potomac, which is how the airport's runways were built in the first place.

In the other room, Mr. Coleman said, the workers were able to roll on the floor to put out the fire, and Mr. Paterek staggered outside onto a runway area, where only yards away, the Port Authority police and emergency crews from Essex and Union Counties were staging a disaster drill that simulated a crash landing of a 727.

Peacocks have occasionally flown into the runway area and collided with moving aircraft.

She, along with 12 others, was charged with aggravated trespass and unauthorised entry to the runway areas of Heathrow on 13 July last year.

Thus, things might have happened differently at the Toronto airport, had it had a larger runway overrun area with aircraft arresters that can help stop planes.

This was followed up with an upgrade to the runway safety area and runway lights in 2008 and 2009.

Avinor carried out a major upgrade to the runway safety area and landing lights in 2008 and 2009.

Runway Safety Areas (RSA) and Taxiway Safety Areas surrounding runways and taxiways providing a margin of safety for aircraft overruns also must be inspected and maintained.