RUNWAY SAFETY SURFACE FUNDED.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer Seventeen months after a Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. jet overshot overshot protruding. overshot fetlock see knuckling over. overshot jaw See brachygnathia. Called also parrot mouth. a rain-slick runway at the Burbank Airport, officials Friday announced nearly $2 million in federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve for an emergency safety surface to help stop wayward way·ward adj. 1. Given to or marked by willful, often perverse deviation from what is desired, expected, or required in order to gratify one's own impulses or inclinations. See Synonyms at unruly. 2. planes. With the announcement by Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Pasadena, Burbank Airport officials said the money would go toward a collapsible cement surface that can stop a plane traveling up to 50 knots. ``I think this federal award is going to be a significant benefit,'' Schiff said. ``We want to prevent planes from straying stray intr.v. strayed, stray·ing, strays 1. a. To move away from a group, deviate from the correct course, or go beyond established limits. b. To become lost. 2. out into crowded boulevards.'' Construction could begin as early as this fall and be completed in January 2002, officials said. Burbank Airport officials said the money would go toward the $4.5 million project for the safety surface they plan to install on about 230 feet of the east end of Burbank's Runway 8. They are seeking additional grant funds for the project, officials said. ``This project has come about after considerable dialogue with the FAA and the city of Burbank,'' Burbank Airport spokesman Victor Gill said. ``We're trying to do things that enhance the safety of the airport.'' Officials said plane traffic should not be affected by the construction. Last year, Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 from Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. approached Runway 8 too fast, rolled through a fence and skidded to within yards of a gas station on Hollywood Way. Seven of the 142 passengers, including the pilot, suffered minor injuries in the March 5, 2000, crash. Officials said Flight 1455 was traveling about 30 knots when it ran out space on the 6,032-foot runway. |
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