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backtrack
- Definição1
- (1) When transmitted on radio by the air traffic controller, it means that the aircraft should turn through 180º on the runway after landing and taxi in the opposite direction (i.e., toward the runway end from which the aircraft has landed). (2) In air, to turn through approximately 180º and follow the same track in the reverse direction.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Aircraft accident digest n. 20. Montreal, 1974. (Cir. 118 AN/88).
- Contexto
- The Comet aircraft was in communication with Bedford tower on frequency 245.8 MHz. The aircraft had been cleared to enter the runway and to backtrack to the take-off position and had also been informed that the Trident approaching the runway was making an overshoot and was not intending to land.
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