Tool Kit for  Runway Excursions

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF)  has released a Runway Excursion Risk Reduction (RERR) tool kit. The toolkit, a joint effort between FSF and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), provides an in depth analysis of runway excursion accident data, a compilation of significant risk factors, and provides recommendations for operators, pilots, airports, air traffic management, air traffic controllers and regulators to assist in addressing this challenge. FSF President and CEO William R. Voss said “this was an international effort with participants representing the full spectrum of stakeholders from the aviation community. We wanted to reach out to the entire aviation community with the findings and working with IATA to produce a tool kit containing this information made a great deal of sense as they were one of the RSI participants." The RSI group focused on runway excursions as they discovered that 97% of runway accidents were caused by excursions. They also found that over the past 14 years, there had been almost 30 excursions per year for commercial aircraft (over 25% of all accidents). The study also noted that although the percentage of excursions that included fatalities was low, the sheer number of excursions still meant that there were a high number of fatalities.  Independent of the FSF effort, IATA's Safety Group had identified runway excursions as a significant safety challenge to address.