Dan'l wrote:
I guess my question would be - why have an 8 foot berm at the end of a
runway? If it hadn't been there, would this accident have happened?

Not this one, maybe, but surely a slightly different accident would have
sprouted from the same roots. An 8-foot, or 80-foot berm shouldn't have
much to do with crashing on a 6000' runway. Operating procedures and
training, perhaps.

Maybe the real fault is that the runway is twice as long as it ought to
be. Yeah, that's the ticket.


Jack