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South Korea plane crash, Boeing 737-800 from Jeju air (i.imgur.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

There are runways with crushable concrete at the ends, but I'm not sure that does much for something skidding across without gear down.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/engineered-material-arresting-system-emas-0

Same link addresses a lot of your questions, I think

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    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.

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