The aircraft came down just 150 yards from the landing strip at the McRae family's home.
On December 15th, Taiwan said it was building a landing strip on one of the islands.
The crew couldn't make contact with the landing strip at Goma on what was then the Rwanda-Zaire border.
Currently, the Hales' landing strip has too much snow for wheeled aircraft but not enough for those with skis.
The landing strip is just a tiny break in the rain forest's canopy.
He used a landing strip of cardboard boxes, known as a box rig, covering about 350ft (100m) by 45ft (15m).
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No big resorts befoul the coastline, and the only airport is a landing strip, accepting nothing much larger than a 16-seater plane.
Osborn said he made "at least 15 mayday calls" as the plane limped toward the nearest landing strip -- China's Lingshui military base on Hainan Island.
At a - as yet unspecified - later stage in the fantasy, a small plane shudders to a halt on the dusty landing strip.
Coeur managers cut road exposure down to a 10-mile stretch by flying into and out of a desolate gravel landing strip, which they extended 700 feet and will soon pave.
Its isolated branch on a Lake Victoria island receives money from the sky: with no landing strip, planes drop bags of cash to be collected by staff and security guards.
But just why ancient people created the Nazca Lines has been an enduring mystery: Some archaeologists have suggested it was an alien landing strip, a primitive sun calendar, or an irrigation system.
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The stretch from the old US airbase of Khe Sanh north to Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is a beauty, including a wide section that was apparently a secret jungle landing strip for MIG fighters during the war.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) A passenger plane carrying soccer fans headed for a match skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing four people, injuring two and leaving the fate of two others unknown, officials said.
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