Safety system can stop planes that overshoot runways, but most airports don’t have it

Miami, Florida (InvestigateTV) — In the hours after an Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport in September, crashing through a fence and hitting two vehicles on a road bordering the facility, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board swarmed the scene.Their leader, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy, used three words to describe the aftermath of the crash, “Devastating. Utter devastation.”Aerial video of the scene shows deep black scars cut into the earth at the edge of the airport property, where charred, twisted metal sits scattered well beyond the tarmac — pieces of a cargo jet thrown where a plane was never meant to go.“You can see on the paved surface, tire marks that continues in the grass. There’s debris everywhere,” Homendy said.The plane, a Boeing 767, had overrun the airport runway by 1,200 feet according to the NTSB — killing five people riding in its path. The accident is what the agency calls an “excursion”, where a plane goes off