The car blew through a neighbor's yard, clipped a house and went airborne -- landing on the roof of a house.

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This socialisation for war made it only natural for Hirohito to accept (some would say welcome) the undermining of Japanese diplomacy by the army and later the navy that set Japan on its fateful course to launching co-ordinated attacks in 1941: the airborne assault on the American fleet in Pearl Harbour and the ground landing on Kota Bharu in British Malaya.

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Joseph County Airport Authority, said the jet attempted a landing, went back up and maneuvered south to try another landing, but eight minutes later the airport learned the plane was no longer airborne.

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Once airliners are airborne, pilots typically connect and then monitor the performance of autopilots and flight-control computers until close to landing.

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