Sentence examples for runway lights from inspiring English sources

Everything was dark but the runway lights.

(Emergency runway lights meant that inbound flights could still land).

Then on Friday, the runway lights failed at the airport in the Nigerian capital of Abuja.

He wrote "Signaux" (1978), for example, after wondering how the patterns of an airport's runway lights could be captured musically.

It then took off completely in the dark, save for a few seconds of runway lights to guide it out.

If trapped in an airport terminal for too long, Jets coaches might fiddle with the runway lights just for a joke.

PARIS — The barefoot models at Maison Rabih Kayrouz strolled out onto a green grass runway lit by the sun.

But the Americans who arrived at Khanabad found a pitted airfield and insufficient runway lighting and traffic-control equipment.

The F.A.A. has shut more than 200 of its projects, including new control towers, airport runway lighting projects and security enhancements.

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.

"The northern runway is nearing the end of its design life and requires resurfacing and other modifications,"explains the operator, Dubai Airports – adding: "There is a requirement to upgrade runway lighting and construct new rapid exit taxiways on the southern runway to boost capacity".