Airstrip Quotes

This will be like trying to land a 747 on an airstrip built for a single-engine plane. And we're all going to have to fly in by the seat of our pants. - Barmak Nassirian

They were coming in very low, looking for the airstrip - a big beginner's error. - Victor Girao

It was not skidding off the runway. Actually the landing was smooth, but the pilot had to turn the aircraft at the end of the airstrip to the taxi way because he felt that something went wrong with the aircraft's nose wheel during the landing. - Hasyim Arsal Alhabsyi

In their camps they have airstrips, planes ... very sophisticated equipment like computers and satellite transmitters, everything you can possibly imagine that isn't necessary to evangelize indigenous groups. - Jesse Chacon

Can't believe some of the things I did. The idea of going to Somalia alone, not having a place to stay or security. I was 23 or 24. There was fighting between different clans in the city. I literally landed on the airstrip and had no idea about the town. A truckload of gunmen approached me, and I ended up hiring them as my gunmen, and we went around to these burial rounds where all these bodied were being dumped, and there were all these empty pits. I was thinking, they could just shoot me and put me in a pit and no one would ever know. - Anderson Cooper

As I think about his leadership, I think of the courage it took for our commander in chief to land on an airstrip in the dark of night, a world away, to be with our troops on Thanksgiving. - Bernard Kerik

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. - Tom Hooper