The crew attempted unsuccessfully to restart the engines, gliding down unpowered while simultaneously trying to find an emergency landing field within range.

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This caused him to wind up flying 40 miles past the landing field at Mach 3 (2, 000 mph) before turning back, and only narrowly miss some trees.

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"We considered over 30 designs and believe that the QSST is the only design that meets all the desired requirements including range, take-off and landing field length, take-off noise, emissions and sufficiently low sonic boom characteristics to enable supersonic flight over land, " he told CNN.

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Investigators also concluded that if Capt Easson had tried to carry out a forced landing in a field rather than deciding to return to Glasgow Airport, "the outcome might have been different".

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After landing on a soccer field near a school, Wolfowitz was escorted to a classroom, where about thirty farmers and their families presented him with a souvenir plate.

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The West's major prep race for next month's Kentucky Derby drew nine colts, with the winner earning 100 qualifying points toward landing a spot in the 20-horse field on the first Saturday in May.

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The craft itself may not survive this, but it gives the project's engineers a chance to practise landing a spacecraft remotely on a relatively small target with a gravitational field that varies immensely from one place to another.

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It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.

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