Swedish company Runway Safe installs engineered materials arresting systems (EMAS), which are designed to bring aircraft that ...

EMAS allows aircraft to sink into a lightweight material, which helps planes to rapidly decelerate when overrunning a runway. Hwang added, "For airports with shorter RESA, an EMAS can ...

The “EMAS” arrestor system was introduced last decade and is credited with capturing six planes which overran the runway including a Boeing 747 at New York’s Kennedy airport. It works by ...