Report: Half of runways don't have safety zone

CNN dot com ^ | 11/3/2006 | Associated Press

[Silly]

Darn, I thought this was a thread about something else:

Runway Safety

[HAL9000]

An airplane overran the Little Rock runway during a storm a few years ago, killing the pilot and some passengers when it crashed into the pylons at the end of the runway on the south bank of the Arkansas River. That runway has been extended now, so it should be safer. If they can extend a runway into the Arkansas River, it can be done other places too.

I was up on the observation deck last week, watching for my wife's flight. They landed hot on that runway and got to the jetway very quickly. It turned out that some guy had a seizure right before the landing. I'm glad they had a little extra margin for safety.

[Silly]

Those runways can be HIGHLY UNSAFE!

[phantomworker]

That's silly. ;)

[Silly]

There's a video link at post 21. The poor girl falls down TWICE!

(And what's up with the watering can...?)

Still being,

[PAR35]

Or Southwest pilots flying into Midway.

What about American at Little Rock? Or even the Delta at Lexington. Speaking of Southwest, they had an overrun at Burbank as well.

[Moose4]

If you made them put 1000-foot overruns on the runways at Midway, nothing bigger than a Twin Otter would be able to land there ever again, it looks like. The joys of urban airports.

Maybe Mayor Daley will close it and plow the runways in the middle of the night...y'know, for "safety" purposes.

}:-)4

[RayChuang88]

Thanks to improved moveable wing surface design, more powerful engines and standard reverse thrust, a 737-700/800 can easily operate out of Midway Airport in Chicago even fully loaded. The combination of better flaps to allow slower landings, spoilers to bleed off speed, and thrust reversers doing the same makes this possible.

This isn't like the early days of jet airplanes, where the relatively low thrust of the jet engines really did mean much longer runway requirements.

[pepperdog]

Bush has really been an outstanding President. Since he came to office all personal responsibility for any inconvenient or illegal act has become his fault. Every sin committed is Bush's fault. We are all faultless because all of our faults are Bush's fault. Wow! What a guy. Thank your boss for making this clear to me, now I can drive as fast as I want, be as rude as I want and do any other thing I wish without that nasty personal responsibility thing hanging over my head.

P.S. Your boss is an idiot! I bet he is a real thrill to work for.

[GOP_1900AD]

Got one of these of Burbank? (.... one of the places I have seen 737s sparking from slight impact of the tail on the runway ... :)