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Aircraft emergency landing route system

  • US 9,257,048 B1
  • Filed: 01/21/2013
  • Issued: 02/09/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing a landing site for an aircraft, the method comprising:

  • selecting, using a navigation tool, the landing site from a group of landing sites;

    determining, using a routing tool, a touchdown point on the landing site;

    growing, using the routing tool, a spanning tree comprising a minimum cost path up from the touchdown point to an origin point in the air;

    computing, using the routing tool, a route from a current location of the aircraft to the origin point, the route being four-dimensional;

    communicating, to a platform, a description of a state of the aircraft along the route of the aircraft over time to the landing site; and

    flying the aircraft to the landing site using the description of the state of the aircraft along the route of the aircraft over time.

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