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Old 1st February 2002 | 13:20
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Captain Airclues
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Don't call "overshooting" in the US, or they'll send the fire trucks to the far end of the runway. In the US, and now in many other countries, a go-around is when you abort the landing, an overshoot is when you run off the end of the runway.

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