Toronto Star Article
Pearson International Airport's newest runway lacks proper safety margins and falls short of international standards, Air France alleges in a lawsuit following the dramatic 2005 crash of one of its jets at the site.
The French airline and its insurers are suing the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which runs Pearson, the federal government and the country's air-traffic control agency for some $180 million, charging they all cut corners that contributed to the crash of its Airbus A340 jet.
The airline takes aim at the airport operator, saying the design of Runway 24 Left – which ends at a steep ravine – failed to ensure there was an "adequate margin of safety for aircraft in the event of an overrun event..."
This is not the first thunderstorm accident where everybody was landing successfully until the last one did not.
Anyway there's no surprise that the insurer is looking for contributions from other parties.
If EMAS becomes more widely used as a result of this lawsuit, lives and hulls will be saved.