Experts say the runway at Mangalore airport makes a bad crash inevitable if the landing is not accurate.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

The Afriqiyah Airways plane for Tripoli. was arriving from Johannesburg, South Africa,and is believed to have crashed just short of the runway.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Khan says the flood waters and the debris affected the airport runway,a hospital, the office of the state-owned telephone company, the bus stand,and a paramilitary camp.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

(Speaking) One irate man told French radio he did not understand why Lyon airport authorities did not open at least one runway, closed by a 20-centimeter snowfall.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

Flights were suspended as soldiers tried to clear the runway.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

But Air India chairman Jadhav has said there were no problems with the airport runway, and the pilot who landed the ill-fated aircraft had done so many times previously, and was highly experienced.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

All the bodies have been recovered from the charred remains of the Air India plane that caught fire after it overshot the runway and plunged down a cliff Saturday in the southern Indian city of Mangalore.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23