Small Runway

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  Penguin Found At New Zealand Airport Just Before Takeoff: "Unusual Little Visitor"

  The small blue penguin, known locally as a Korora, was spotted by an Air Chathams pilot. This prompted the airport staff to immediately run and grab the bird.

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  Myanmar Plane Overshoots Runway, Crash-Lands Into Bush At Mizoram Airport

  All the 14 passengers of a small Myanmar military plane had a miraculous escape on Tuesday after the aircraft overshot the table-top Lengpui airport runway near Aizawl and crash-landed into a bush, officials said.

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  SpiceJet Plane Skids Off Runway At Shirdi, Passengers Stuck For Hours

  A SpiceJet plane overshot the touch-down point while landing at Maharashtra's Shirdi and skidded off the runway on Monday afternoon, bringing all operations at the small airport serving the bustling temple town to a halt.

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  3 Killed As Plane Hits Two Helicopters While Taking Off In Nepal

  A small plane veered off the runway and hit two helicopters while taking off near Mount Everest on Sunday, killing three people and injuring three, officials said.

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  Plane Ditches Into Lagoon, Passengers Swim For Their Lives

  Passengers were forced to swim for their lives Friday when an airliner ditched into a lagoon after missing the runway on a remote Pacific island and immediately began sinking.

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  Watch: Drones Fly Down The Runway Carrying Dolce & Gabbana Handbags

  Is this the future of fashion? That's probably the question you'll be asking yourself after you see what happened at Dolce and Gabbana's fashion show on Sunday. At the fashion house's show in Milan, drones - yes, drones - modelled handbags. Small drones buzzed down the runway showing off D&G's latest quilted handbags, much to the audience's amuseme...

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  Nose Wheel Of Private Aircraft Bursts In Chennai

  The nose wheel of a small private aircraft carrying three persons on Wednesday burst on landing at the runway in Chennai, CISF officials said.

• Five dead, two hurt in small plane crash in Georgia

  Five people were killed and two were injured when a small jet airplane overran a runway in eastern Georgia and crashed into woods, authorities said on Thursday.

• Five dead after small jet crashes in Eastern Georgia

  Five people were killed and two injured when a small jet crashed off the end of a runway in eastern Georgia, an official confirmed early on Thursday.

• Small jet carrying seven runs off runway in eastern Georgia

  A small jet with seven people aboard ran off the end of a runway and crashed on Wednesday evening at an airport in eastern Georgia, authorities said.

• Woman with child drives on Phoenix airport runway

  Police say a woman driving with a small child in her car crashed through a gate at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and drove on the runway.

• Juhu airport to get a runway over the sea

  With the initiative to develop Juhu airport, as a secondary airport gaining momentum, and plans to shift all of the small aircraft operations from Mumbai airport to Juhu on the anvil, it has now been decided that the existing runway will be extended westwards into the Arabian Sea - on stilts.

• Video captures plane before it crashes, killing 4 in US

  Security video captured a small plane taking off from a southern Utah airport just before it crashed about 300 yards from the runway, killing all four men aboard, a federal investigator said on Sunday.

• Jaipur: Flight delayed? Blame small runway at airport

  The Sanganer Airport at the state capital is yet to be upgraded as flights with higher capacity of passengers could not land at the airport's runway. The airport authorities had to face embarrassment when a Boeing plane having the capacity of more than 400 passengers could not land at the airport that came to take Haj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. Fina...