A B-757 (300) ran off the end of what might have been a dry Midway runway, a few years ago. Because nobody was killed, thank God, I had almost no luck reading anything about the accident. A check of the NTSB website might help.
About five days ago during descent into Charlotte (CLT), near max landing weight (maybe 106,000#) for a 10,000' runway, 18R, I told the FO that if the tailwind component were to increase and go over 10 knots, we would immed. divert to GSP. No alternate fuel but had plenty of reserve + cont. This was a dry runway, but Charlotte Approach Control was not ready to "turn the airport around", as the wind direction was to improve. If the wind had increased, maybe ATC would have found the "commercial incentive" to allow planes to land on 36L and R.
Jon DC-9. Another top airport candidate on your list would also be DCA. Politics (world-class egos
) before safety. The FAA would never be allowed to consider closing it. Who appoints the top administrators?
Maybe "they" could allow some civilian charter flights into Andrews AFB, which has much longer runways. Security? A STAR into BWI takes you right over Andrews anyway-and BWI ops never required the ludicrous, former "daily secret code". Anybody could order Jepps. Maybe there is too much red tape for our enlightened bureaucratic "leadership" to sort out, as with the sad "Three Stooges Circus" after Hurricane Katrina. Too many bloated federal departments to "support"...
Never mind on many winter days at short runways such as Traverse City (TVC) MI. My company, due to incorrect airport runway treatments or past invalid braking action/RCR reports, has a detailed block of info in the Jepps for more than a few airports in the upper Midwest. Landing any jet, especially with no slats (CRJ), former DC-9 dash 10) into some of these places is seriously risking your career each time you go in, more so than with flaps and slatted wings.
Years ago, even at an airport (GFK) which has a very expensive, excellent university aviation school on location, some airport workers threw sand on an icy runway, but no chemicals, and a heavy jet slid off of the side, mostly due to the much reduced rudder ineffectiveness of tail-mounted engines. The Captain had never flown the plane as FO, for what it is worth-another trap.