[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] September 2025 was an unusually bad month for runway overruns in the US. On the night of September 24th, an Embraer 145 with 53 people on board landed long at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport in Virginia, overshooting the
direct link to the video embedded in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJqY1WLX4zA (18m39s)
if you want to just read Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_system
Same video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/practical-engineering-the-hidden-engineering-of-runways/ (16m36s, presumably because it skips a sponsored segment)
I’m actually surprised he doesn’t look to Nebula from the blog post version of the video.