When Jeffrey Skiles, the co-pilot of the plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in January 2009, explained how he and his captain decided that an airport landing was impossible, he described the same "gaze heuristic": The angle of the plane's descending glide made the airport appear to rise in their windscreen view clearly signaling that a landing there was doomed.
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The pilot and air traffic controller discussed options, including landing at Teterboro airport in New Jersey, the official said.
When landing at the airport, you won't have to search for a clock to know the correct time at your destination.
The airport collects landing fees, fuel fees and ground-handling fees when airlines drop in unexpectedly.
In February the plane lost its front wheels landing at London City Airport on arrival from Amsterdam.
"We'll tie it in with the hotels, " he said, "and we'll give them free parking and landing fees at the airport".
Fog and the lack of an instrument landing system at Guernsey Airport has caused disruption to flights, the airport director has said.
Any plane taking off or landing at the Detroit airport gave passengers a view of acres of minivans, Jeeps and pickup trucks.
It would also provide accommodation for its clinical team which is currently working out of temporary buildings at its current landing pad at the airport.
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Suddenly the pastoral quiet is pierced by the deafening whine of a Korean Air 747, 100 yards away, coming in for a landing at JFK International Airport.
But when you look out of a plane window as you buckle-up ahead of landing at a UK airport, the revelation is how green the country appears.
Mr Gibson also asked if the government's Strategic Transport Projects Review would treat as high priority speedier rail, safer road, enhanced harbours and an all-weather landing scheme for Wick Airport.
After "landing" at the airport, collecting baggage and dropping it off, they would queue to receive fake tickets and new fake baggage, and go through security to board fake planes.
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Sir Richard has been particularly critical of the number of take-off and landing slots at Heathrow Airport that BA holds, especially after its parent company IAG bought BMI, which gave it more slots.
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Joseph County Airport Authority, said the jet attempted a landing, went back up and maneuvered south to try another landing, but eight minutes later the airport learned the plane was no longer airborne.
Virgin is the second-biggest airline at Heathrow airport, where landing slots are hard to acquire.
Airlines have been reluctant to merge lest they be forced to give up precious transatlantic landing rights at their home airport.
No big resorts befoul the coastline, and the only airport is a landing strip, accepting nothing much larger than a 16-seater plane.
After landing at Louis Armstrong International Airport, I took the long way to the bureau, driving down Airline Highway to Earhart Expressway.
The first was on Jan. 7 aboard a Japan Airlines 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport shortly after landing following an overseas flight.
It was attempting to circle back to the city's regional airport after a failed landing attempt.
There are moves to reduce transport costs by, for example, cutting landing fees at Sapporo's airport.
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Adam Gardenhire deliberately pointed the commercial grade green laser at a private Cessna Citation that was landing at the Burbank Bob Hope Airport in California on March 29, 2012.
At least 89 people, most of them foreigners, were killed when an aeroplane skidded off the runway on landing during bad weather at Phuket airport in southern Thailand .
The FAA says even though it limits the number of takeoff and landing slots at Newark, the airport is still scheduled at peak traffic most hours, so if a backlog develops, there's no lull in which to catch up.
Officials in the tower said the plane was too high and did not have its landing gear down as it approached the airport.
Virgin and Delta are forming an operational partnership that will give Delta more access to take-off and landing slots at London's Heathrow airport.
After landing at Berlin's Tegel military airport earlier on Tuesday, the Queen began her fourth state visit to Germany by being driven, with the Duke of Edinburgh, to the Schloss Charlotten presidential palace in a dual-fuel royal Bentley - a German-owned company.
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