A captain taxied his aircraft into an lrd airport emas area at the runway's end because there were n...

Attributes
ACN	907823
Time
Date	201008
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	LRD.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 12000 Flight Crew Type 7000
Events
Anomaly	Ground Excursion Runway

Narrative:

I landed and we rolled out to the end to exit on the last taxiway (foxtrot). The lights on taxiways are very poor and always changing due to construction going on at this airport. Also; there are zero runway identifier lights at the end of the runway. After bringing aircraft to a full stop; we as a crew had realized we had passed the last taxiway up. Again; after coming to a full stop on runway; I started a left turn to taxi back to taxiway foxtrot. In the left turn the aircraft's nose tire and right main wheels entered the emas (arresting system). The left main wheels remained on runway surface. We called a wrecker service to safely pull aircraft out of emas area. Zero damage to aircraft. And none of the people on board were hurt. There is nothing to warn pilots where runway ends and emas begins. The emas is painted gray and appears to look like concrete or asphalt. The same thing happened to another aircraft two before; same runway same spot.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Captain taxied his aircraft into an LRD airport EMAS area at the runway's end because there were no runway end identifier lights and the EMAS material looked like a continuation of the runway.

Narrative: I landed and we rolled out to the end to exit on the last taxiway (Foxtrot). The lights on taxiways are very poor and always changing due to construction going on at this airport. Also; there are zero runway identifier lights at the end of the runway. After bringing aircraft to a full stop; we as a crew had realized we had passed the last taxiway up. Again; after coming to a full stop on runway; I started a left turn to taxi back to Taxiway Foxtrot. In the left turn the aircraft's nose tire and right main wheels entered the EMAS (arresting system). The left main wheels remained on runway surface. We called a wrecker service to safely pull aircraft out of EMAS area. Zero damage to aircraft. And none of the people on board were hurt. There is nothing to warn pilots where runway ends and EMAS begins. The EMAS is painted gray and appears to look like concrete or asphalt. The same thing happened to another aircraft two before; same runway same spot.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

A captain taxied his aircraft into an lrd airport emas area at the runway's end because there were no runway end identifier lights and the emas material looked like a continuation of the runway.