B463, Khark Island Iran, 2016

B463, Khark Island Iran, 2016

Summary

On 19 June 2016, a BAe 146-300 landed long at Khark Island and overran the end of the runway at speed with the aircraft only stopping because the nose landing gear collapsed on encountering uneven ground. The Investigation attributed the accident - which caused enough structural damage for the aircraft to be declared a hull loss - entirely to the decisions and actions of the aircraft commander who failed to go around from an unstabilised approach, landed long and then did not ensure maximum deceleration was achieved. The monitoring role of the low experience First Officer was ineffective.

Description

On 19 June 2016, a BAe 146-300 (EP-MOF) being operated by Mahan Airlines on a domestic passenger flight from Ahwaz to Khark Island as IRM 4525 landed long off a visual approach to runway 13 at destination in the early afternoon and overran the end of the runway by 54 metres. The nose gear collapsed soon after the aircraft left the paved surface causing significant structural damage to the front of the aircraft which was subsequently declared a hull loss. An emergency evacuation was performed on the orders of the Captain; none of the 89 occupants were injured but due to damage to the door separating the flight deck from the passenger cabin, the flight crew evacuated via the side windows and using the escape ropes provided for that purpose.

The aircraft stopped - inset is an enlargement of the point where the nose gear collapsed. [Reproduced from the Official Report]

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board of the Iran Civil Aviation Organisation (CAO). The 2 hour SSCVR and the SSFDR were recovered from the aircraft and successfully downloaded.

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