• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    To date, EMAS safely stopped 22 overrunning aircraft, carrying 432 crew and passengers aboard those flights.

    Seems that this isn’t a new tech but can be hard to retrofit at airports with limited space. Cool to see a list of airports that do have it installed though

    In some cases, it is not practicable to achieve the full standard RSA because there may be a lack of available land. There also may be obstacles such as bodies of water, highways, railroads, and populated areas or severe drop-off of terrain.