AIP Grants Totalling $50 Million Allocated For The Projects
The FAA and the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) have unveiled two significant safety enhancements to Logan Airport’s longest runway. FAA Airport Improvement Project (AIP) grants totaling $50 million helped fund a crushable concrete safety area at the harbor end of Runway 33L that is designed to prevent planes from overrunning the runway. The FAA also installed navigational aid improvements that will help planes land safely in bad weather.
The new runway safety area includes a 300-foot-wide concrete pier that extends 470 feet into Boston Harbor. The crushable concrete area is installed on top of the pier and covers an area 170 feet wide and 500 feet long. The Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) bed is designed to quickly and safely stop and aircraft as large as a 747 in the event the plane moves past the end of the runway.
“These two safety projects are the latest example of the critical partnership between the FAA and Massport, which has one mission - enhancing the safety of the flying public and the air crews that depend on Logan airport,” said FAA Administrator Michael Huerta.
The FAA approves the use of EMAS beds at airports where water, city streets or other factors limit the available size for a safety area at the end of a runway. The beds have safely stopped aircraft that overran a runway eight times since 1999.
Massport began the $63 million project in 2011, using $50 million in FAA AIP funding and $13 million of its own funds. According to Massport, the project created about 70 construction jobs.
As part of the runway work, the FAA worked closely with Massport to speed up the installation of an upgraded instrument landing system that provides precision guidance to help pilots land in strong crosswinds and winter operations when snow is on the ground. The new system also serves as a backup to another Category II/III approach.
Massport funded the $15 million instrument landing system project, and FAA technicians installed it as part of an aggressive seven-month construction schedule.
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