On 2 March 2023, an Airbus A380-800 landing at Singapore in heavy rain drifted to the right of the runway centreline after the autopilot was disengaged before touching down close to the runway edge. The aircraft continued to drift right, and the right main landing gear briefly left the runway and damaged several edge lights before regaining it. The handling pilot did not use correct technique to regain the runway centreline, and go-around calls from the monitoring pilot shortly before and immediately after touchdown were not understood/heard despite compliance with such calls being mandatory.
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On 2 March 2023, an Airbus A380-800 (A6-EVJ) operated by Emirates on a scheduled international passenger flight from Dubai to Singapore Changi as EK354 touched down close to the right-hand runway edge. When this drift was not corrected, the right main gearbriefly exited the runway onto the adjacent grass before regaining it and completing the landing roll. One right main gear tyre deflated and another was damaged after coming into contact with three consecutive runway edge lights, which were all destroyed.
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