The emoji in question, which has the formal name "airplane arrival," was introduced in 2014 and was included in the first-ever universal emoji release, Emoji 1.0, in 2015, according to Emojipedia.

A handful of airports across the country are pushing Unicode for a new plane-landing emoji after claiming the current one appears too “crash-y.” The social media team behind the Dallas/Fort ...

The airport landing emoji on your phone, a social media icon you might use to message someone that your flight has arrived, looks “too crash-y,” the folks at Memphis, Tenn.’s airport tweeted.