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Miami Plane Crash Starts Debate About Requiring a Buffer for Runways

A technology involving crushable concrete has been credited with saving nearly 500 passenger lives by helping halt planes that overshot their landings.

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An image provided by Roanoke-Blacksburg Airport showing a commuter flight stopped by an engineered materials arresting system, or EMAS, last year.
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Fatal Cargo Crash in Miami Echoed One That Killed 5 in 1997

Both crashes highlighted Miami’s role as a cargo hub to the Caribbean and Latin America.

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Smoldering wreckage of a DC-8 cargo that crashed at Miami International Airport in 1997.
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White House Construction May Have Contributed to Close Call With Trump’s Helicopter

A controller let a jet take off after missing warnings that Marine One was about to fly through the area, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

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A passenger jet came within a mile of Marine One in early August, after an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport appeared to have missed multiple warnings.
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Engine Blade Hit Window on Jet Before Man Was Partly Sucked Outside, Report Says

The National Transportation Safety Board said it had found a bird’s remains and feathers on a broken engine.

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A Ryanair plane in Thessaloniki, Greece, last May. A full investigation into an incident last month will take at least a year, federal official said.
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