Air carrier captain commented that crw runway 5 is a black hole following a landslide which disabled...

Attributes
ACN	1327107
Time
Date	201601
Place
Locale Reference	CRW.Airport
State Reference	WV
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Engineer
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 22000 Flight Crew Type 820
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Narrative:

The emas had a land slide at the approach end of runway 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 runway 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.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: 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.

Narrative: 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.

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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.