Originally Posted by
kiers
I note that many small town airports in India don't have ATC radar ( you can check the article at economic times (.com) newspaper: 5967775.cms );
A lot of regional airports in Europe don't have it as well.
Originally Posted by
kiers
SO given that this runway excursion/overshoot was likely due to overshooting the landing touchdown by a significant distance, shouldn't Calicut ATC have done a verbal altitude check with the pilot to make sure the plane was properly tracking the right glide path at an proper altitude at a given DME reading?
Most runway overruns tend to happen because the aircraft is too fast on approach and then bleeds the energy in a float over the runway as opposed to a firm touchdown in the touchdown zone (beginning of the runway). So the aircraft could be perfectly on profile for the entire approach and still overrun the runway.