Just tried to aggregate all the heavy jet runway overrun statistics at Australian International airports and came up with.... ?
Look harder, Lufthansa off the end of 07 in Sydney, PanAm off the end of 25 in Sydney. There have been some very close goes on 07, and some scary missed approaches after touchdown. From memory, there were a few off the end of 26 at Essendon, and several off the end of the short runway in Perth --- two in one day about 1989 or thereabouts. They are just the ones that come to mind without any research.
From many of the posts, it seems few of you, who are obviously not commanders of heavy transport aircraft, understand the legal authority (and responsibilities) of the pilot in command, and exercising those legal rights has nothing to do with ego, or the various pejorative suggestion emanating from those who simply have no idea.
One of the great difficulties I have had, in relatively recent years, is getting the message across to Australian ex-GA pilots, that the legal authority of the pilot in command mean exactly what it says.
It will be interesting when CASA put Part 91 in place, these rights will be thoroughly obscured, to the degree that it will be arguable whether they still exist, and to the degree that it can be said that, in this area, Australia will not be ICAO compliant, and completely out of step with most of the aviation world.
In most country's regulations (and in Australia's current regulations) the matter is one short paragraph, in the best of current Australian aviation regulatory practice, the subject in Part 91 covers many pages, most of which, on examination have nothing to do with the authority of the pilot in command.
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