Description

On 31 December 2019, an Airbus A330-300 (TC-LOL) being operated by THY Turkish Airlines on a scheduled passenger flight from Istanbul to Port Harcourt as THY3WJ departed the right side of the 60 metre-wide destination landing runway following an ILS approach in night VMC before regaining it after which the rest of the landing roll was completed normally. There was no injury to the 295 occupants but three runway edge lights were damaged and the aircraft sustained damage to three of its main gear tyres, one of which was completely deflated, and minor damage to the internal fan cowl of the right engine and to the right inboard flap.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Nigerian Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB-N). The CVR and FDR were removed from the aircraft on its return to Istanbul and their data downloaded by the aircraft operator and sent to the AIB-N. However, by this time, relevant CVR data had been overwritten. The aircraft operator also provided a copy of relevant QAR data to Airbus “for analysis and transcription”. 

The 43 year-old Captain, who was acting as PF for the flight involved, had a total of 11,538 hours flying experience of which 694 hours were on type and the 42 year-old First Officer had a total of 2,726 hours flying experience which included 1,752 hours on type with 695 of those hours recorded as in command.