Knowledge of the deceleration/acceleration forces and human factors involved in rejecting a landing after touchdown — especially on a contaminated runway with significant crosswind — should inform flight crews’ risk assessments before arrival in a regional jet or other turbine-powered airplane, says a U.S. academic researcher. If communicated via graphs and diagrams in training, aircraft flight manuals and approach briefings, and via aural and graphical alerts from avionics (ASW, 11/09, p. 26, and 8/10, p. 30), imperceptible risks become readily apparent, according to Nihad Daidzic, a professor in the Department of Aviation at Minnesota State University, Mankato.1
His perspective of when an overrun becomes prefe…
