Runway safety system installed at N.H. airport

MANCHESTER, N.H.—The finishing touches have been completed on a new runway safety system at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.

The Engineered Material Arresting System installed at the end of the airport's secondary runway includes a checkerboard of compressible concrete blocks that can slow and stop an aircraft that overshoots the runway. The system has been in use since November, but the last pieces of construction related to the project weren't completed until spring, and a new service road around the system just opened.

The secondary runway is used for about 25 percent of the airport's takeoffs and landings.

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Fonte: Flight Safety Information 30/06/2008