The FAA has developed new protocols for ATC to use when telling pilots about runway conditions that might affect their landing. The new standards, which take effect Oct. 1, are meant to reduce the risk of runway overrun accidents and incidents due to runway contamination caused by weather and other factors, the FAA said. The new standards were developed after a committee examined a December 2005 overrun accident at Chicago Midway Airport, when a Southwest 737 ran off the end of the runway and into a street after landing during a snowstorm. A six-year-old boy in a car was killed.
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