Originally Posted by
lazard
[N]one of the airports in Korea have EMAS. Also, it turns out a bunch of airports have the same concrete berm issue...including Yeosu, Gwangju, Pohang-Gyeongju, and Jeju...all within 300M of the end of the runway.
Sadly, so many safety rules and upgrades are due to lives being lost (see: RMS
Titanic). Surely the Korean authorities will now consider removing such concrete berms and installing EMAS?
Relatedly, other countries may be advised to check their own runway excursion circumstances. A few airports that I have flown in and out of, BUR and SAN in California, have landlocked airports with relatively short runways and very little space for overruns. They have EMAS installed. Here's another relevant article:
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202412300010
Taiwan's transport safety authority confirmed on Monday that Songshan Airport in Taipei has had safety installations, including Engineered Materials Arresting Systems (EMAS), since 2009, amid concerns following a fatal crash at a South Korean airport on Sunday.
Faced with questions over the relatively short runway at Songshan Airport, Lin Shinn-der (林信德), chairman of the Taiwan Transportation Safety Board (TTSB), said at a legislative hearing that the end of the runway at the airport had been fitted with Engineered Materials Arresting Systems (EMAS) -- crushable material designed to stop aircraft that overrun.