A320, vicinity Tokyo Haneda Japan, 2016

A320, vicinity Tokyo Haneda Japan, 2016

Summary

On 22 December 2016, an Airbus A320 cleared for a night approach to runway 16L at Haneda, which involved circling to the right from an initial VOR approach, instead turned left and began an approach to a closed but partially lit runway. ATC noticed and intervened to require a climb away for repositioning to the correct runway using radar vectors. The Investigation found that the context for the crew’s visual positioning error was their failure to adequately prepare for the approach before commencing it and that the new-on-type First Officer had not challenged the experienced Captain’s inappropriate actions and inactions.

Description

On 22 December 2016, an Airbus A320 (JA811P) being operated by Peach Aviation on a scheduled international passenger flight from Taipei Taoyuan Taiwan to Tokyo Haneda as flight 1028 in night VMC failed to follow its clearance to position via a right turn to final approach for runway 16L and was observed by ATC to be lining up for closed runway 23. The instruction to discontinue this approach was given and the flight was then radar vectored to finals 16L without further event.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB). FDR data was subsequently downloaded in support of the Investigation in association with recorded ATC data but that from the CVR was not as the aircraft had continued flying and relevant information had been overwritten. It was a noted that the 62 year-old Captain, who was acting as PF for the sector, had accumulated 24,104 total flying hours which included 8,490 hours on type. The 43 year-old First Officer had a total of 3,530 flying hours of which just 405 were on type having recently completed type conversion.

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