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Aquaplaning is a condition that can exist when an aircraft is landed on a runway surface contaminated with standing water, slush, and/or wet snow. Aquaplaning can have serious adverse effects on ground controllability and braking efficiency.
The "runway condition" is a runway's current status in relation to current meteorological conditions and air safety. Dry: the surface of the runway is clear of water, snow or ice. Damp: change of color on the surface due to moisture. Wet: the surface of the runway is soaked but there are no significant patches of standing water.
Runway rubber removal using pressurized water. Airfield rubber removal, also known as runway rubber removal, is the use of high pressure water, abrasives, chemicals and other mechanical means to remove the rubber from tires that builds up on airport runways.
The US Navy said it removed fuel from a reconnaissance jet that overshot a runway in Hawaii and went into an environmentally sensitive bay last week as it works to recover the plane.
The flight crew did not review the approach options, and as a result, were not aware of a standing water warning at the Kingston airport and did not select the most suitable runway for landing. The flight crew decided to land in heavy rain on a wet runway in a tailwind close to the tailwind landing limit.
A US Navy reconnaissance jet with nine crew members aboard crashed into water off the Hawaiian island of Oahu on Monday after overshooting the runway at a US Marine Corps base there, military ...
Aircraft also sometimes end up in water by running off the ends of runways, landing in water short of the end of a runway, or even being forcibly flown into the water during suicidal/homicidal events. Twice at LaGuardia Airport, an aircraft has rolled into the East River (USAir Flight 5050 and USAir Flight 405).
By sundown, most of the 130-foot-long P-8A was on the runway while the front portion continued to float on "roller bags " that lifted the 60-ton warplane from two points of contact with the coral ...