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landing approach

n. the approach to a landing field by an airplane

Usage examples of "landing approach".

Doe keyed the microphone and declared ScotAir 50 ready for the instrument landing approach to Runway 32 just as the 727 penetrated a hailstorm, the deafening sound of hailstones impacting the aluminum skin of the Boeing making conversation momentarily impossible.

The planes peeled off and, in sequence, began their landing approach.

The doors closed and the pilot circled to the north for twelve minutes before banking around on his landing approach.

Streicher had been watching through the viewscreens, but he could see more linking into the data feed from the landing approach optical feed from the bridge.

She rattled through a brief checklist: the site ought to be on a smooth, unbroken plain, with no highlands nearby to interfere with the final landing approach, and the winds should be low, and the season should be chosen to minimize the prospect of dust storms, and so forth.

During the final landing approach on that flight, the power units had caught fire.

The Bataan made its landing approach from the direction of Seoul, passed low over the people gathered around the base operations tents, and touched down.

Hunter steered his F-16 toward its final landing approach to the Algiers airport.

He didn't like flying by the ILS, but it was the only way to make a carrier landing approach at night.