The flight crew lost Earnings_and_losses control of the aircraft and were unable to stop Motion in the runway available and the aircraft overran the runway , hit Motion an airfield aerial installation , losing Earnings_and_losses an engine , then crossed Motion_directional the Malaga–Torremolinos Highway , hitting Motion a number of vehicles before finally hitting Motion a railway embankment and bursting Destroying into flames .

japanese forces Causation used the area to regroup from attacks Attack against u.s. forces Causation on the island , to launch further attacks Attack on the u.s. defenses that guarded Patrolling the allied airfield ( called Name_conferral henderson field ) located at lunga point on guadalcanal , as a base to defend Defending against allied attacks Attack directed Aiming at japanese troop and supply Supply encampments between point cruz and cape esperance on western guadalcanal , and as a location for watching and reporting Reporting on allied activity around henderson field .

Patches of thick fog were drifting Motion across the airfield , so that the aircraft and control Control tower were unable to see Perception_active one another .

The event was held Hold at Strathclyde Park , Lanarkshire until 1996 , then moved Motion to the disused Balado airfield , Kinross-shire from 1997 to 2014 .

The Japanese forces Hostile_encounter , mainly from the Imperial Japanese Army , were guarding Defending an airfield at Munda Point on New Georgia that the U.S. wished to capture Conquering .

The Americans eventually secured the airfield in the Battle Hostile_encounter of Munda Point .

The Raid on Pebble Island was a raid by British Special Forces on Pebble Island 's airfield during the Falklands War , and took place Process_start on the night of 14–15 May 1982 .

SAS elements , then embarked on HMS `` Hermes '' , were tasked Request with eliminating the airfield , with naval support from the Type 22 frigate HMS `` Broadsword '' as `` Hermes '' defensive escort and the County class destroyer HMS `` Glamorgan '' to provide naval gunfire support with its Mark 6 4.5 inch guns .

The force infiltrated the airfield without alarm allowing them to lay charges on seven of the aircraft .

Following this cue `` Glamorgan '' began Process_start shelling the Argentine positions on the airfield using high-explosive rounds , hitting the ammunition dump and fuel stores .

The Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion , 2/6th Field Company , and B Company , Papuan Infantry Battalion reached Arriving Nadzab after an overland and river trek that same day and began Process_start preparing GetReady the airfield .

Carpiquet airfield fell Motion_directional to the Canadians during the early morning and by 18:00 , the British and Canadians had linked Connect up along the north bank of the Orne .

over the next several months , the japanese established Creating a naval refueling , communications , and seaplane reconnaissance base on tulagi and the nearby islets of gavutu and unk , and in july 1942 began Process_start to build Building a large airfield on nearby guadalcanal .

The Japanese invaded Attack and occupied Control the location in order to construct Building an airfield and establish Creating a base to cover and support the advance of Japanese forces into the eastern New Guinea and Coral Sea areas .

In spite of the losses sustained during the air raid , Japanese forces successfully occupied Control Lae and Salamaua and began Process_start the construction of a base and airfield .

air units based at the airfield later supported Supporting an air superiority campaign against allied forces at port moresby .

All attempts by the IJA to recapture Conquering Henderson Field , the airfield on Guadalcanal in use Using by Allied aircraft , had been repulsed Defending with heavy losses .

The most important infrastructure built Building by the Japanese was an airfield , which was the target of repeated Allied air strikes Attack .