As it slid down the runway, the back of the aircraft burst into flames.

当机沿着跑道滑行时，机尾部突然起火。

Must mean the government took back the airstrip.

看来你们政府拿回机跑道了。

Its nose is pointed up but the plane is still moving down towards the runway.

机头朝上，但机仍然向跑道方向移动。

It reportedly failed to stop before skidding around 50 to 60 meters off the runway.

据报道，机在滑出跑道50到60米后才停止。

A plane was landing on the runway.

有架机正降落在跑道上。

In The Netherlands, an airplane with passengers from Cape Town, South Africa was held on the runway for four hours for extra testing.

在荷兰，一架载有来自南非开普敦乘机在跑道上停留了四个小时，进行了额外检测。

But all these concepts are massively expensive, require safety certification standards for road and air, need dual controls, involve complex folding wings and propellers, and have to be flown from air-strips.

但是所有这些概念都成本高昂，要求路面与空中安全鉴定标准，需要双重控制，涉及复杂机翼和推进器，而且必须从机跑道起。

Well, the simple answer is aircraft carriers, people operating on those are Navy pilots, and if their airplane doesn't make it off the end of the runway, they know they're going into the drink.

答案很简单，在航空母舰上工作人都是海军行员，如果他们机没能出跑道尽头，他们知道自己要落水了。

That night, I could not sleep, and I went out on that airstrip at Tontouta — I'll never forget it — and I walked along the airstrip.

那天晚上，我无法入睡，我走到通图塔机跑道上——我永远不会忘记——我沿着机跑道走。

Do you realise that your government is about to hand over 40 million pounds' worth of housing, building, and harbour installations and an airstrip to a private developer for nothing?

你知道吗？你们政府即将把价值超过四千万镑住房、建筑、港口设施和一条机跑道都白送给一位私人开发商吗？

A plane from Atlanta skidded off a runway at LaGuardia Airport while landing, coming to rest with its nose close to the edge of an icy bay.

来自亚特兰大航班在拉瓜迪亚机场降落时偏出跑道，机鼻翼距离结冰法拉盛海湾仅有咫尺之遥。

And so you might think of the runway at an airport where the airplanes are and where they take off and land on a runway.

因此，你可以想象机场跑道，机在那里起和降落。

Imagine a plane that's about to land. Its nose is pointed up, but the plane is still moving down towards the runway.

想象一下，一架机正准备降落。其机头抬起，但是机仍在向跑道移动。

It then hit the ground three meters beneath the runway and slid down the slope 200 meters before finally coming to a rest.

然后机撞上了跑道下三米地面，沿着斜坡滑下 200 米，最后停了下来。

The landing gear struck a seawall at the end of the airport runway, causing the tail end of the plane to break off.

着陆装置撞上了机跑道末端防波堤，造成机尾部断。

The plane's Russian crew took off from an asphalt runway, now they're getting ready to land on a sheet of ice.

俄罗斯机组人员开着机从沥青跑道起，现在他们准备在冰面上降落。

Aircraft that can take off vertically without a runway and then fly like a plane have (has) been anticipated for decades.

数十年来，人们一直期待着有机可以在没有跑道情况下垂直起，然后像机一样行。

And this is what it looks like today -- airstrips, radar towers, four and five-story concrete buildings.

这就是它现在样子—机跑道、雷达塔、四到五层混凝土建筑。

Aircraft that can take off vertically without a runway and then fly like a plane have been anticipated for decades.

该机可以在没有跑道情况下垂直起，然后像正常机一样行机，这种功能已经被期待了几十年。

Hundreds of flights were cancelled in Chicago where a plane skidded off the runway. However, no one was injured.

芝加哥一架机滑出跑道，数百架航班被取消。不过，没有人受伤。