1.   ...deficient landing systems.

2.   Both its rocket engines and its landing system are quite unlike anything else.

3.   The FAA official said the jet struck guided landing system equipment and then a bridge of lights that span an embankment at the end of the runway.

4.   Pilots complained that their landing system instruments were giving false readings.

5.   A landing system known as the glide slope, which leads planes to the runway, had been out of service at the airport.

6.   And months earlier, the airport had months removed a landing system that would have guided the plane to the runway.

7.   Nevertheless, Air Force Lt. Gen. Howell Estes III said in Washington that the landing system used by Dubrovnik airport is considered safe.

8.   Tapes also show there was cockpit confusion about whether another landing system using radio waves to outline the proper approach path was operational.

9.   The airport has come under criticism for lacking an instrumental landing system, which helps guide a plane in for landing.

10.   The airport, because it was undergoing an upgrade, had temporarily removed a sophisticated landing system that can help guide the plane to the runway.