-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Goanetters annual meet in Goa is scheduled for Dec 27, 2005 @ 4pm | | | |The Riviera Opposite Hotel Mandovi, Panjim (near Ferry Jetty/Riverfront)| | Attending.......drop a line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1392641
<much of the attention initially focused on the 6,500-foot runway. Midway built in 1923 and surrounded by houses and businesses is among nearly 300 U.S. commercial airports without 1,000-foot buffer zones at the ends of its runways. Most lack the room to create adequate buffers. Safety experts say such airports can guard against accidents by instead using beds of crushable concrete that can slow an aircraft if it slides off the end of a runway. The concrete beds called Engineered Material Arresting Systems are in place at the end of 18 runways at 14 airports. They have stopped dangerous overruns three times since May 1999 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.> There should be no excuses for ramping up Seabird NAS on grounds such as "unsuitable terrain". In fact there's no justification for sitting tight on a 11,000 foot runway like Dabolim just for training carrier pilots and helicopter pilots! Let's get real. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
