News coverage and photos Jan 19 Charleston W. VA . . . UA Air 2495 Challenger stops 130 feet into the Engineered Material Arresting System.
It’s a PSA CRJ2…flight JIA495. The 1/19 flight doesn’t appear on the list, for obvious reasons 8)
Glad everyone’s ok.
I have seen shows before about EMAS(Engineered Material Arresting System). It is really cool stuff. Definetly did it’s duty here!
Several passengers said the pilot told them over the plane’s intercom system after the incident that he had ignored a warning to stop when the plane began traveling faster than it is designed to.
What???
Several passengers said the pilot told them over the plane’s intercom system after the incident that he had ignored a warning to stop when the plane began traveling faster than it is designed to.
what a moron. I hope he didn’t really say that
IIRC, this is one airport where you REALLY don’t want to run off the tarmac 
No way - why would he say something like that? I guess he’s wanting to join those NW pilots and see what an early retirement’s like?
I’m reminded of George Costanza trying to get fired. I guess washing his feet in the ice cream machine didn’t work…