1.   He practiced landings on Sunday, then told the control tower that he would fly for another hour.

2.   In those same types of boats, men practiced such landings on the deserted beaches.

3.   Like a student pilot practicing touch-and-go landings, a tornado briefly touched down and lifted up over western Louisiana on Sunday.

4.   She added that she and her backup pilot, using a laptop computer, would practice landings even while in orbit.

5.   A fighter jet practicing night landings on the aircraft carrier USS Independence hit a sailor on deck and seriously injured him, TV and radio reports said Wednesday.

6.   A sailor on the aircraft carrier USS Independence was seriously injured in a freak accident involving a fighter jet practicing night landings, a Navy spokesman said Wednesday.

7.   The area of the next round of exercises includes several islands, suggesting that the troops may be practicing amphibious landings.

8.   The preliminary phase of the exercises is taking place in Odessa, with Marines practicing landings on the Ukrainian shoreline.