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  2. TWA Flight 5787 - Wikipedia

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    The take-off was carried out and the No. 4 power lever was retarded to the simulated failure idle position. The pilots climbed to 1,500 ft (457 m) and vectored to intercept the ILS course at the outer marker. The tower granted Flight 5787 permission to either land, make a touch-and-go landing, or make a low approach of the runway at its discretion.

  3. USAir Flight 5050 - Wikipedia

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    Flight 5050 was cleared for a departure from LaGuardia Airport's runway 31, a 7,000-foot (2,100 m) runway which ends with an elevated deck overhanging Bowery Bay. [1]: 7 As the first officer began the takeoff on runway 31, the airplane started to drift to the left. The captain attempted to correct that drift with the use of the nosewheel tiller.

  4. Farquhar Airport - Wikipedia

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    Farquhar Airport (ICAO: FSFA) is an airport serving Farquhar Atoll, part of the Farquhar Group of islands in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.. The atoll comprises several islands; the airstrip is on Île du Nord (North Island).

  5. Northwest Airlines Flight 1 - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after takeoff to the northwest (current runway 31), and at an altitude of five hundred feet (150 m) above ground level (AGL), the aircraft began a short turn to the left, lost altitude rapidly, and descended almost to the ground. It then pulled up into a sharp climb, reached about 500 feet AGL again, turned left again and descended ...

  6. Gander International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Gander has two active runways: runway 13/31 which is 8,900 ft × 150 ft (2,713 m × 46 m), and runway 03/21 (changed from 04/22 in August 2004) which measures 10,200 ft × 150 ft (3,109 m × 46 m) and underwent a $10 million comprehensive rehabilitation project, completed in September 2012.

  7. Runway - Wikipedia

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    Runway 13R at Palm Springs International Airport An MD-11 at one end of a runway. In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. [1] Runways may be a human-made surface (often asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (grass, dirt, gravel, ice, sand or salt).

  8. Thai Airways International Flight 601 - Wikipedia

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    The Sud Aviation Caravelle had 80 people aboard: 73 passengers and 7 crew. With the plane on ILS approach to runway 31 at Kai Tak, Captain Viggo Thorsen (age 43) and Co-pilot Sanit Khemanand (aged 50) became occupied trying to make visual contact with the ground. They failed to notice that the aircraft had descended below the decision height of ...

  9. Aerosucre - Wikipedia

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    On May 1, 1995, a Boeing 727-200F (registered HK-1717) descended below the glide slope on approach to Taguatinga Airport, Brazil, touching down 6 m (20 ft) before the runway threshold. [15] On June 25, 1997, the same aircraft, HK-1717, crossed the threshold of runway 31 at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, after having aborted takeoff ...