1.   Planes drop bombs, ships hurl shells at the shore and Marines practice amphibious landings.

2.   The tank he was in got stuck in sand and caught fire during its first practice landing.

3.   A practice landing with a high-tech hovercraft was nixed because of fears it might harm a coral reef.

4.   The plane that crashed and exploded Monday had been conducting practice landings in the Veracruz commercial airport on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

5.   The practice landings were carried out in rough seas and light rain on an island near the northern Taiwan port of Keelung.