"..... not in all this discussion of the berm which, as I think I mentioned earlier could, at other airports around the world, well have been houses"
BR, my local strip is 10,000 feet long and 300 feet from the 06 end the builders left a 12ft high solid bank of rock
..... travel a further 50 feet and the ground flattens out and remains suitable for a "very serious crash over-run" if it was ever required for a couple of thousand feet minimum! ...... but you would never get there!
..... the 12ft high rock bank would kill you first ...... To this day, I've never understood why they left the rock there
If you have lots of open space why on earth leave an imoveable obstacle at the end of the runway?