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    Incheon and Hong Kong two of the best-ranked airports in the world Airports are similar to cities in a variety of aspects where to happen many activities such as take-off, landings of aircraft, movement of people and freight. It is important to highlight that passengers are the essence of the airports operations considering that the primary purpose of the commercial aviation is to transport customers from one point to another point in a period of time. In over the past years airports focused only

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    (Skywest 5569), a Fairchild Metroliner, had just executed its clearance to taxi to Runway 24L from Gate 32 given by the local controller (LC2) in the LAX tower, and was holding short (NTSB, 1991, p. 5). It was now 6:03PM, about 40 minutes after Sunset, with a cloud deck at 30,000 feet and 15 miles of visibility (NTSB,

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    On September 19, 2008 at 11:53 pm eastern standard daylight time, a chartered Bombardier Learjet Model 60, N999LJ, owned by Inter Travel and Services, Inc., and operated by Global Exec Aviation, overran runway 11 during a RTO at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Columbia, South Carolina. The captain, first officer and two other passengers were killed. The cockpit voice recorder caught multiple loud rumbling sounds, which was later concluded in the NTSB report to be tires blowing out. The tires were

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    most arguable one over the years, the murals point to the rebirth of the world, nazi and fascist symbolism. Another controversial theory is the construction and design of the runways that create the form of a swastika. “Denver International Airport is the secret hub of the New World Order. Opened in 1995, DIA has six runways that form a swastika, and lost of underground space, not for moving luggage but for setting up concentration camps. Its terminals are decorated with Masonic symbols and murals

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    FOREWORD Waterblasting Technologies manufactures the Stripe Hog Waterblasting System to remove all types of durable pavement markings from roadways and runways and rubber deposits left from aircraft landings. The business began in 1988 and the Stripe Hog has been available to the public since 2005 and is now in 50 countries with more units working around the world than our top five competitors combined. The fact that the founder, James Crocker, has been a waterblasting contractor since 1988 has

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    airport has eight gates that can handle a passage of over two million passengers annually. The airport’s website reports 444,844 passengers travelled through MLB in 2014 with the number expected to significantly rise year over year. Including the main runway, there are

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    to make ILS approaches and to tune to frequency 1091 for 17L." (FAA). Around 5:59 pm, the co-pilot commented, we are going to get our airplane washed, indicating he was conscious of rain between plane and the runway, 17L at DFW (FAA). By this time Flight 191 was third in line to land on runway 17L, behind Flight 35, which was a Boeing 727 Learjet 25 and behind them for landing was American Flight 539, which was a McDonnell-Douglas MD-80. Flight 191 switched over to arrival control frequency for landing

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    passengers and freight is known as an airport master plan (Kwakkel et al. 2010). Bradley (2010) states that an airport’s capacity is a result of a number of different combined factors. These include how much aircraft movement over a specific period its runway can handle, the number of aircrafts its apron can accommodate, as well as how much incoming and outgoing passengers and freight its terminal can facilitate per hour (Caves 1994; Bradley 2010). An airport master plan can include airport expansion,

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    crew was notified of severe weather report which was communicated to be approximately 15 miles away from the landing area (Runway overrun during landing American Airlines, 2001). The first officer communicated to the control tower that Flight 1420 was aware of the weather. Additionally, the captain and first officer perceived the aircraft had time to make the approach (Runway overrun during landing American Airlines, 2001). Second, the flight crew was aware of the crosswind conditions and a short

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    modifications in the Brisbane airport by introducing a new parallel runway to ease up the traffic of airplanes. This will help to reduce the delays in the flights both arriving and departing from the airport. This project was started in the year 2014 and is expected to be completed in the year 2020. The new parallel runway (NPR) will be 3.3 kilometers and 60 meters wide. It will be located 2 km west of and parallel to the existing runway. The investment of the project is 1.35 billion dollars. More than

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