ESCO’s EMASMAX Safely Stops Private Jet at Teterboro Airport!

Disaster averted at site of 2005 overrun and crash thanks to ESCO’s EMAS arrestor bed.

ESCO EMAS Fact Sheet

By Stan Koczkodaj, Marketing Creative Director

Teterboro, NJ – On Friday afternoon, October 1st, at 1:45 PM, a Gulfstream G-IV private jet with eight passengers and three crew members on board was safely stopped by an ESCO EMASMAX arrestor bed installed at the departure end of runway 6 at Teterboro Airport.

The aircraft’s flight began in Toronto and ended in Teterboro when it touched down, then proceeded to exit the runway at an estimated 40-50 knots, before penetrating approximately 20 rows of blocks into the length of the EMAS bed. An intermittent trail of skid marks on the tarmac followed the aircraft, which stopped less than 300 feet from Route 46, a busy six lane highway.

As in previous EMAS arrestments, the aircraft sustained no significant damage and none of the passengers were injured. The airport was back in service within three hours. The official cause of the incident is under NTSB investigation.
The balance sheet for this save is impressive: One $8M EMASMAX bed implemented to save one $25+M aircraft, the lives of eleven passengers/crew and untold millions of dollars of damage/loss of life if the aircraft had breached the fence, crossed the busy highway and impacted the nearby warehouse and caught fire. The EMAS bed required minor repairs, which were completed within ten days.

Teterboro Airport is located near New York City and is recognized as one of the busiest private/corporate jet airports in the US. In 2005, on the same runway, a corporate jet carrying eleven people failed to get airborne and crossed Route 46, striking cars along the way before plowing into a warehouse. Twenty people were injured. The Port Authority of NY & NJ addressed the safety issue immediately, championing the installation of ESCO’s EMASMAX in 2006. There are plans to install additional arrestor beds at Teterboro in the near future.

There have been six other official aircraft engagements involving ESCO’s EMAS, dating back to 1999. The most recent prior to Teterboro took place in January 2010 at Yeager Airport, Charleston, WV, when a Bombardier CRJ-200 aborted takeoff and was saved by ESCO’s EMAS. Both the Yeager and Teterboro events received significant local/regional media coverage.

(Photos courtesy of the Port Authority of NY & NJ)

Email Inquiries: emasmax@zodiacaerospace.com &Stan.Koczkodaj@zodiacaerospace.com

Additional news links regarding this story:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/private-jet-overshoots-runway-22253590
http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen/100110_Plane_overshoots_Teterboro_runway_is_stopped_by_arrestor_bed.html
http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-newark/teterboro-jet-stopped-on-runway-before-it-hits-route-46
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20101001/UPDATES01/101001061/Plane-overshoots-runway-at-Teterboro-no-injuries-