Guernsey Airport Accident 7th December 1997.m4v

The Air UK accident at Guernsey Airport in December 1997 during high cross wind is examined.
The existing Guernsey Airport runway plan seems to be safer than the planned extension, for accidents in high crosswinds. These aircraft veer off to the side; and there is more room at the sides of the runway ends under the current apron layout.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• aircraft
• accident
• examination
• Guernsey
• airport
• expansion

[martyn1d]

Hi Quass79. The runway itself will be longer, but the landing distance will be the same because the airport will be using a displaced threshold for landing. Aircraft will be landing 120meters to the west, but will have a longer run up for taking off.

Hence the animation.

The safest option for aircraft is to put in arresting concrete, this is equivalent to an extra 300 metres of spare runway.

[quazz79]

Your conclusion is that it still would have overshot? You haven't factored the extension in!! With 120 metres of extra runway it is very concievable the aircraft would've stopped with max braking applied. All you have done is given the same overshoot distance at the end of the extension.

If the aircraft had still overshot with the extension it would be travelling much slower and the outcome would be very different.

I can see what you're getting at but your conclusion is very flawed.