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Land damaged airframe around beginning of runway after taking-off at first (5,5)

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I believe the answer is:

terra firma

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'land' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'damaged airframe around beginning of runway after taking-off at first' is the wordplay.
'damaged' is an anagram indicator.
'around' means to look at the middle letters.
'beginning of' indicates taking the first letters.
'taking off' becomes 'te' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'at first' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
The centre of 'airframe' is 'irfram'.
The initial letters of 'runway after' is 'ra'.
'irfram'+'ra'='irframra'
'irframra' anagrammed gives 'rrafirma'.
'rrafirma' put after 'te' is 'TERRA-FIRMA'.

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(Other definitions for terra firma that I've seen before include "Hard ground" , "Solid earth - dry land" , "Solid ground" , "Solid earth (Latin)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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