The US NTSB is requesting that the FAA put in place more comprehensive rejected landing simulation training and other safety advances in the wake of the Shuttle America ERJ170 overrun accident at the Cleveland Hopkins International airport on 18 February 2007.

Pilots of Delta Connection Flight 6448, carrying 71 passengers and four crewmembers, descended below the appropriate minimum altitude for the approach and lost visual contact with the runway end in a snow squall, according to the NTSB’s final report issued 3 April.

The first officer, flying the aircraft at the time, continued with the landing despite the fatigued captain’s call for a go-around. The aircraft “landed long” on the “contaminated runway”, overrunning the en

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