They do sound a bit casual.
I liked the bit about "aborted landing". The TNT Airways Boeing 737-300 freighter which crashed at Birmingham also had an "aborted landing" in East Midlands initially, to the extent you can be said to have one. Not as common as aborted takeoffs though.
The request was motivated by two incidents in 2007 involving Ilyushins, one of which tore down a section of base fencing during an aborted landing.
Four months after the icing incident, on the night of May 10, a Silk Way IL-76 crew tried to land at the base in heavy fog, aborting a landing attempt when the plane clipped the base fence, tearing down 50 metres of fencing. The plane landed without incident in Ottawa.
Glad no one was hurt in all of this. Another good reason for ordering the C-17's for the Canadian Armed Forces.
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