Dramatic airport security footage captures the moment a commercial jet experienced a catastrophic landing gear failure during a stormy arrival. The aircraft, arriving in heavy rain and high winds, makes contact with the runway at a steep angle. The landing gear collapses instantly, causing the wing to drop and the engine to drag along the tarmac, igniting a massive trail of sparks. Losing directional control, the plane skids off the paved surface and plows into a muddy safety area, narrowly miss

Did you know there are safety systems at the ends of some airport runways? The FAA’s engineered materials arresting systems helps keep airport runways safe with crushable material that can stop aircraft traveling up to 80 mph. Airports install EMAS when they cannot feasibly meet the FAA’s standard runway safety area dimensions – often 500-foot wide and extending 1,000 feet beyond each runway end – because of a lack of available land or existing obstacles. Many runway safety areas are constrained