Originally Posted by Doors to Automatic"
If ever there was a case for an EMAS arrestor system this must surely be it!
"EMAS" = engineered materials arrestor system, or "gravel pit overrun" for those not familiar with the system.
Two notes:
- from the pics it does not really look as if there is enough space at the end of the runway (about 200 ft would be needed at least);
- an EMAS "gravel pit" is only about the width of the runway; both the ATR and the A320 slid off the side of the runway before they got to the end, so they would have missed the EMAS.