Sentence examples for short of the runway from inspiring English sources

It stopped 40 feet short of the runway.

Eight people died when the plane flew into the ground short of the runway.

Afriqiyah Airways said the plane crashed just short of the runway.

The crash occurred inside the airport's perimeter, about 250 metres short of the runway.

"While he was returning and trying to land, the plane went down short of the runway," Ms. Baker said.

With a touchdown short of the runway inevitable, a Mayday call put out three second before touchdown.

In August 1979, Munson died in the crash of his airplane just short of the runway at Akron-Canton Airport. Akron-Canton Airport

At 8 57 P.M., the airplane clips a few tree branches at an elevation of 875 feet m.s.l., approximately 9,357 feet short of the runway.

In 1959, an American Airlines Lockheed Electra hit the water 5,000 feet short of the runway, killing 65 of the 73 people in the plane.

The plane landed a few hundred yards short of the runway, said officials, who reported that eight people had survived and were hospitalized in critical condition.

With some very short runways it may be helpful to start acceleration at the hold short line of the runway thus arriving speed at takeoff end of the runway with ten or fifteen knots of airspeed already developed.