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Hi, Steve. From retirement on
the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and a life of golf, fishing and travel, I still
occasionally get involved in the business and most recently have been have been
doing some work to help the company that makes the crushable concrete runway
systems that help prevent runway overrun accidents. In the course of that
work I hit upon this accident trend and I was fortunate enough to get my old
publication, Aviation Daily, interested in running this
article.
In the course of my years in
aviation I have not seen any other type of accident occur as frequently as
Runway Overrun accidents in so short a time span, and yet be so ignored. I
thought the readers and contributors to the California Net might be
interested. I would be interested in comments in return as to why there
seems to be no urgency about trying to correct this before something really
catastrophic happens (as if the accidents in Asia where not catastrophic
enough). A great big bullet was dodged at Toronto Pearson in August
2005. How much longer can we continue to be so
lucky? Cheers. Ed
Pinto 410-208-6124 410-208-6125
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Aviation Daily-Why No Outcry Over Runway Overrun Accidents.pdf