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Old 7th Feb 2016, 19:38
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The reporting of runway state on the ATIS in the UK was brought in after an incident in Southampton in 1998.

https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/fokk...4-october-1998 gives the full story but basically the crew were not warned of the runway state and subsequent calculations showed that the aircraft was never going to stop in the available distance with the normal technique.
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