1. A Marine Corps refueling plane with at least seven Marines aboard crashed into a mountainside on Wednesday on a landing approach to Shamsi, in southwest Pakistan. 2. It replaces Kai Tak, the in-town field known for its harrowing landing approach between high-rise apartment buildings. 3. The airliner was on its landing approach. 4. The Air Force plane that crashed Wednesday was on a landing approach to Dubrovnik, Croatia. 5. The design, which mimics the landing approach lights at airports, was proposed by a local pilot after a friend accidentally killed a pedestrian with his car. 6. This feature would let air traffic controllers specify a particular distance for planes to follow one another in a landing approach. 7. Rebels in three boats fired machine guns at the plane during its landing approach near the Palali air base in Jaffna Peninsula, the military said in a statement. 8. Rebels in two boats fired small arms at the plane during its landing approach near the Palali air base in Jaffna Peninsula, the military said in a statement. 9. A Swiss regional airliner from Berlin crashed on its landing approach to Zurich late Saturday. 10. A spokeswoman for Essex police said Friday that the men were rowdy and generally disorderly, and the pilot aborted his first landing approach. |
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