A332, Jakarta Indonesia, 2013

A332, Jakarta Indonesia, 2013

Summary

On 13 December 2013, an Airbus A330 encountered very heavy rain below 100 feet agl just after the autopilot had been disconnected for landing off an ILS approach at Jakarta. The aircraft Commander, as pilot flying, lost visual reference but the monitoring First Officer did not. A go around was neither called nor flown and after drifting in the flare, the aircraft touched down with the right main landing gear on the grass and continued like this for 500 metres before regaining the runway. The Investigation noted that prevailing SOPs clearly required that a go around should have been flown.

Description

On 13 December 2013, an Airbus A330-200 (PK-GPN) being operated by Garuda Indonesia on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bali to Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta left the runway shortly after touchdown in heavy rain in daylight and continued parallel to the 60 metre-wide runway with the right main landing gear on the grass for 500 metres before regaining the runway. Resultant damage included a loss of hydraulic system integrity which meant that the aircraft was unable to taxi and it was towed to the parking gate. There were no injuries to the 198 occupants.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC). The FDR and 2-hour CVR were successfully downloaded and a detailed analysis of the final part of the flight was therefore possible.

It was noted that the 63 year-old Captain had accumulated approximately one third of his 25,594 flying hours on the aircraft type involved and that the 24 year-old First Officer similarly had accumulated almost a third of his 2671 flying hours on the type.

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