{"id":374026,"date":"2020-09-17T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374026"},"modified":"2020-09-17T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T07:42:28","slug":"sc-seeks-reply-from-centre-dgca-on-plea-for-emergency-systems-at-small-airports-to-avoid-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-seeks-reply-from-centre-dgca-on-plea-for-emergency-systems-at-small-airports-to-avoid-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"SC seeks reply from Centre, DGCA on plea for emergency systems at small airports to avoid accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The petition has mentioned accidents of August 7 at Calicut International Airport and May 22, 2010 at Mangalore &#8212; both having table-top runways &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; both having table-top runways &#8212; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}