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Shortly afterwards, the aircraft came down on the runway in a belly landing, touching down about 1,310 yards along the 3,062 yard runway and sliding into the embankment at the end of the landing strip.
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Ju-Min Park and Hongji Kim, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
Just after the war, as part of Operation Nanook, the Americans expanded the existing installation with a gravel landing strip as part of an upgrade to a new and larger weather station.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
Only two people survived after the 15-year-old 737-800 Boeing plane run by Jeju Air skidded across the landing strip without landing gear and crashed into a concrete barrier containing antennas, bursting into flames.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Over one million acres destroyed:Track wildfires in real-time in the Texas panhandle
Hemphill County Airport
Hemphill County airport, a pair of small landing strips owned by the county in Canadian, is in the path of the Smokehouse Creek wildfire, the largest in Texas' history.
—Ryan Maxin, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Feb. 2024
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Ju-Min Park and Hongji Kim, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
Just after the war, as part of Operation Nanook, the Americans expanded the existing installation with a gravel landing strip as part of an upgrade to a new and larger weather station.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
Only two people survived after the 15-year-old 737-800 Boeing plane run by Jeju Air skidded across the landing strip without landing gear and crashed into a concrete barrier containing antennas, bursting into flames.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Over one million acres destroyed:Track wildfires in real-time in the Texas panhandle
Hemphill County Airport
Hemphill County airport, a pair of small landing strips owned by the county in Canadian, is in the path of the Smokehouse Creek wildfire, the largest in Texas' history.
—Ryan Maxin, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Feb. 2024
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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20strip. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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