1stspotter (your #3),
...letting the aircraft from the corridor of asphalt assigned to the control tower...
Don't you just love Google translations #! Of course, it means "going off the runway" or (more pedantically) "off the Aircraft Movement Area" (as we used to call it - do we still ?)
# No mockery intended: Google knows more Italian than I do ("
ciao" and "
arrivederci", and I'm done).
Danny42C.