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The wall might critical to keeping things off the runway, like animals and people.
by m463 2y ago
The wall might critical to keeping things off the runway, like animals and people.
- alkonaut 2y agoThose walls are there also on airports that do have open space beyond the runway. But they’re typically fences. Significantly cheaper and doesn’t disassemble and airliner upon impact.
- m463 2y agosorry, I guess I'm doing chesterton's fenc..wall
- dredmorbius 2y agoThis one isn't. It's a relatively short support structure, not a battlement. There are cinderblock a cinderblock wall and numerous chin-link (and razor-wire-topped) fences in the area, which do control airport access. Those would likely not have proved fatal to the aircraft to any similar extent however.