Boeing and Embraer collaborate for runway safety
Jet manufacturers Boeing and Embraer S.A. have collaborated to provide new ‘Runway Situation Awareness Tools’, a collaborative initiative designed to provide customers with a shared set of tools to reduce runway excursions.
The manufacturing duo agreed to work co-operatively on aircraft safety following an agreement earlier this year to ‘cooperate in ways that create value for both companies and their customers’.
To significantly reduce runway excursions in the near term, Boeing and Embraer will provide customers with new pilot procedures and a training video on landing performance. In the longer term, the companies will also develop joint technology and systems for the flight deck to improve pilot information about approach and landing.
Based on data analysis of past incidents, the companies believe the Runway Situation Awareness Tools' broad strategy to reduce runway excursions could be utilized by pilots flying other commercial aircraft, supporting overall industry safety.
"New pilot procedures, training and technology are effective and practical ways to eliminate runway excursions for Boeing and Embraer customers," said Ray Conner, President and CEO, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
"Runway excursion is one of the three major contributors to aviation accidents, and we firmly believe that a robust set of pilot procedures, training and new technology will substantially reduce these events," said Paulo Cesar Silva, President and CEO, Embraer Commercial Aviation.
The global commercial aviation industry has substantially reduced accidents and incidents in recent decades, but runway excursions remain a concern. From 2002 to 2011, runway excursions involving the global fleet accounted for 15 out of a total of 79 fatal accidents and resulted in more than 780 fatalities.
