A342, Perth Australia, 2005

A342, Perth Australia, 2005

Summary

On 24 April 2005, an Airbus A340-200 landed short of the temporarily displaced runway threshold at Perth in good daylight visibility despite their prior awareness that there was such a displacement. The Investigation concluded that the crew had failed to correctly identify the applicable threshold markings because the markings provided were insufficiently clear to them and probably also because of the inappropriately low intensity setting of the temporary PAPI. No other Serious Incidents were reported during the same period of runway works.

Description

On 24 April 2005, an Airbus A340-200 (ZS-SLA) being operated on a scheduled passenger flight from Johannesburg to Perth landed short of the displaced threshold on runway 21 at destination in normal day visibility. There was no damage to the aircraft or to fixed equipment on the ground although a warning cone was damaged by impact with the aircraft. It was noted that the aircraft was being operated with an augmented crew.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). It was established that the aircraft commander had been PF for the approach and landing at Perth and found that all three flight crew were experienced overall but all three had similar and relatively limited experience of the A340.

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