Off the end: airline overruns and undershoots

Airline flights that overran the runway on landing or a rejected takeoff, or landed short of it. Wet and icy runways, tailwinds, long landings and late go-around decisions are recurring threads.

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• Helicopter wire strikes Helicopters work low, near power lines, and often in the places the lines run.
• Tail rotor trouble Rotor failures and loss of tail rotor effectiveness: when a helicopter can no longer stop itself spinning.
• Dark, cloudy and cold Occurrences at night, in instrument conditions, in the winter months of their own hemisphere.
• Ditchings Deliberate landings on water, and what came after.