Originally Posted by
Airbubba
I believe you've heard wrong on that one. On the ATC tape for yesterday's Air Canada B-763 incident at MAD the crew is briefed that there is EMAS on both ends of the runway. The Madrid EMAS was installed in 2007.
OK, fair enough - I stand corrected. However there are a whole lot of airports out there that could benefit from EMAS - it's a shame that it's use is not more widespread.