Runway excursions remain a regular and often fatal problem, despite ongoing awareness initiatives, according to this story from Flightglobal.
Speaking at the European Business Aviation Association Conference and Exhibition in Geneva this year, (Flight Safety Foundation) president Bill Voss highlighted runway safety in all its forms as being worthy of particular attention, but excursions in particular. He said: “Data shows runway excursions are the most common type of runway safety accident (96%) and the most common type of fatal runway safety accident (80%).”
And this quotation, from the Flight Safety Foundation‘s Jim Burin, frames the issue very succinctly:
“Not all unstable approaches end up as a runway excursion, but every runway excursion starts as an unstable approach.”
