SEPANG: Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) has launched the operation of the high-precision foreign object debris detection system (FODDS) for its runway. MAHB group chief executive officer Raja Azmi Raja Nazuddin said KLIA was the first airport in the world to install a fully functional system for the new FODDS technology after the prototype was tested at Japan’s Narita International Airport. Raja Azmi said it was an important milestone for MAHB in terms of enhancing its foreign object debris detection system that would improve the surveillance measures of the runway as it aimed to strengthen KLIA’s position as a global hub. MAHB group chief executive officer Raja Azmi Raja Nazuddin. The FODDS can spot foreign object debris the moment they are deposited on the runway through radar sensing, identifying and locating at a previously unprecedented level of speed and accuracy for objects as small as an aircraft rivet.

Source: New Strait Times April 29, 2019 11:03 UTC