Monday 5 September 2011

THE EXCURSIONS CONTINUE

With a United Express Embraer skidding off the runway in Ottawa http://t.co/beeV6lU I make that at least 3 runway/taxiway excursions in the last few days. Fortunately no-one has been hurt in this latest rash of incidents - excursions may be the most common accident category but they are frequently survivable - the Turkish A340 RET excursion in Mumbai closed the main runway for days. It seems that in spite of all the runway excursion risk reduction work by FSF, IATA, ICAO and other industry bodies over past few years, we still have a significant issue on our hands...

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