New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought responses from the Centre and the DGCA on a plea seeking installation of Engineered Materials Arrestor System (EMAS) at airports having table-top runways to ensure safety of aircrafts which overshoot runways or abort takeoffs.
The petition has mentioned accidents of August 7 at Calicut International Airport and May 22, 2010 at Mangalore — both having table-top runways — to buttress the installation of EMAS, which is a bed of engineered materials built at the end of a runway to reduce severity of consequences to aircrafts overshooting runaways or aborting takeoffs.
This technology arrests such aircrafts and prevents loss of life or damage to the flying machine and this technology has already been deployed in over 125 runways across the world.
