Sentence examples for wrong runway from inspiring English sources
The pilot was on the wrong runway, which proved too short.
But the two German pilots, after having received clearance for takeoff, taxied on the wrong runway.
A7 Jet Took Wrong Runway The Singapore Airlines jet that crashed in Taipei on Tuesday, killing 81 people, taxied onto the wrong runway and slammed into construction equipment just before takeoff, Taiwan's air safety chief said and the airline agreed.
Mr. Yong disagreed, saying that mistakes by the airport "did not lead the pilot onto the wrong runway".
"The captain, from beginning to end, didn't know he was using the wrong runway," Mr. Yong said.
Pilot error put the flight on the wrong runway but it remained a mystery why an experienced captain made such a "dreadful mistake," airline officials said today.
One thing he gets wrong is runway shows, which have an exhilarating energy, an excitement of anticipation and revelation that the film fails to convey.
At least 118 people were killed at Linate Airport here this morning when the pilot of a small Cessna plane took a wrong turn on a runway and collided with an SAS jet that was just reaching takeoff speed.
As the debate over Heathrow's future intensifies, Boris Johnson said it would be "totally wrong" for a new runway to be built there.
Even if the government was so mad and wrong to do the third runway or mixed mode [mixing take-offs and landings on the same runways] those solutions would rapidly run out of usefulness and time.
He also said Heathrow "got it wrong" when proposing the third runway that was scrapped in 2010.
