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NTSB Expands Runway Safety Improvement Call
By Sean Broderick | November 9, 2007
NTSB expanded its long-standing call to improve runway safety, tweaking its most-wanted list in the process. From the press release:
The Board expanded the issue area of runway incursions to include runway excursions, incidents when aircraft on the ground depart the runway environment. Three additional recommendations were added to this area, which was renamed “Improve Runway Safety.” Two of the recommendations ask the FAA to require that aircraft not be allowed to cross any runway without specific authorization from air traffic controllers. The third recommendation, addressing the danger of runway excursions, requests that airline pilots be required to incorporate a 15% safety margin into landing distances calculations.
Learn more at NTSB’s most wanted safety improvements home page.
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