Two runway overruns on the same day—one resulting in Brazil's deadliest air crash—underscore the need for improved approach-and-landing safety and airport arrestor-bed systems.rnOn July 17, a TAM Airlines Airbus A320-200 en route from Porto Alegre, Brazil, landed at Sao Paulo Congonhas Airport, then departed airport boundar-rnies and crashed into a concrete building. Preliminary information indicate that all six crewmembers and 180 passengers on the aircraft, as well as three people on the ground, were killed.
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