Definition of "overfly" []

• To fly over (a particular area or territory) in an aircraft or spacecraft. (verb-transitive)
• To fly beyond or past; overshoot: The plane overflew the runway and crashed. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "For example, say you want lo land at Edwards, you may have to overfly highly populated areas such a the LA basin."
• "Conversely, if Israel were to defy international law and illegally overfly Iraq?"
• "The two Coast Guard experts sent up to overfly the area with the borough said they saw nothing that resembled an oil slick, Hasenauer said."