landing strip

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Recent Examples of landing strip 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 Fullerton Mayor Pro Tem Shana Charles told the Los Angeles Times more oversight is needed including making sure the entryway for the landing strip is safer and more education for pilots. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025 For example, a scientific research station with a landing strip is located at the South Pole, which is more than 1,200 kilometers inland. Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024 Photos posted to the department's Facebook page show the small aircraft sitting among the trees alongside the landing strip. Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for landing strip
Recent Examples of Synonyms for landing strip
Noun
  • But thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s time as governor, the once awful Third World landing field in Queens now matches Fiorello the man in superlatives.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Across the street from the resort was the Chicagoland Airport, once a satellite landing field during World War II for Glenview Naval Air Station.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Doha will invest $10 billion in a U.S. military facility and purchase $42 billion in weapons from the U.S., Trump said Thursday during a speech at a U.S. military air base in Qatar.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • On May 10, Pakistan issued a notice for Rahim Yar Khan air base saying that the runway was not operational.
    Agnes Chang, New York Times, 14 May 2025

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“Landing strip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landing%20strip. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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