Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Engineer
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200; Flight Crew Total 22000; Flight Crew Type 820
Confusion; Distraction; Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification
Airport; Procedure
The EMAS had a land slide at the approach end of RWY 05. The end lights are gone with the slide. The threshold is displaced about 570 feet. The FAA and airport have turned off the VASI and GS to RWY 05. I submit this may be good layering but flies in the face of safety! Turn them back on; put NOTAMs in about landing long or better yet put a new VASI in. This is a black hole airport in terrain and taking the vertical guidance away is not the solution. I can see some poor guy in low visibility ripping his gear off or worse yet landing short with fatal outcomes. I wonder if the airport guys talked to any flight safety guys. I am also a former PE (Practice of Engineering) in civil engineering and I appreciate the operational problems of this airport; but nothing should take away safety devices at an airport.
Air carrier Captain commented that CRW Runway 5 is a black hole following a landslide which disabled the ILS Glideslope; VASI; and REIL while displacing the runway threshold.