It missed the runway, landing on the sea just off Bali's international airport on April 13.
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 .
Since 2005, only a handful of serious accidents followed pilots landing short of a runway, all of which involved regional airliners with fewer seats than the Lion Air jet.
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She also pointed out, though landing on the same runway, Southwest Airlines flights approach runway 23 from the north, turning right, while the Colgan Air flight that crashed was approaching from the south turning left.
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Virgin and other carriers such as Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and Emirates operate long-haul services, frequently using airports, such as London's Heathrow, where there are limited runway slots for take-off and landing.
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The Twin Otter is one of just a handful of planes capable of landing on Barra's beach runway.
One can get a sense of how important this air corridor is from the fact that Kandahar Air Field near the Pakistan border in southern Afghanistan is reported to have the busiest runway in the world with some 700 flights landing or taking off there every day.
That a plane headed down the runway had only about a 60% chance of landing safely?
The Sky Warrior's automatic takeoff and landing system can put a plane on a runway "plus or minus one foot, " says one Department of Defense official who asked not to be named.
In March, an Afghan civilian drove a stolen pickup truck onto a ramp alongside the runway where Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's plane was landing at a U.S. military base in southern Helmand province.
The alert, initially issued by Southwest Airlines and reissued Wednesday by the airline's pilot association, warned there was a "potentially significant hazard" concerning the instrument landing system's glide slope guidance signal for runway 23.
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He officially opened a runway, which had already had several thousand planes taking off and landing on it.
Harten said that after coordinating with controllers in Teterboro, they determined that Runway 1 was the best option and cleared it for an emergency landing.
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"There was no indication of any problems on landing, but as the plane reached the end of the runway two of its tyres burst, " the spokesman said.
No one was landing or taking off, but I still shouldn't have crossed that runway without permission from the tower.
Upon returning to base and landing, he caught an arresting wire attached to an anchor chain, dragging it along the runway.
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