airstrip

A small airstrip was rarely used except in medical emergencies.

He said that due to the hilly landscape that surrounds Eglinton airstrip, the volume of plane crashes were "high" and many "fatal".

Sitting on a hillside above the city, small 35-seat propeller planes take off and land from a tarmac airstrip.

On a calm day with clear skies, flying to the remote airstrip is a thrill, an easily accessible adventure and a celebrated rite of passage in Southern California’s tight-knit private pilot community.

Those restrictions have since been lifted, and commercial flights are slowly resuming from a smaller airstrip near the capital, Noumea, though the territory’s main airport remains closed.