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While landing at an airport, a pilot made an angle of derpession of `20^(@)`. Average speed of the plane was `200km//h`. The plane reached the ground after 54 seconds. Find the height at which the plane was when it started landing.
`(sin20^(@)=0.342)`

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Plane was at a height of 1026 m when it started landing.
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