B738 / GL5T, Hong Kong China, 2018

B738 / GL5T, Hong Kong China, 2018

Summary

On 13 November 2018, a Boeing 737-800 on approach to Hong Kong at night received a late landing clearance for runway 07L in good visibility. The aircraft touched down without the crew seeing that a Bombardier Global 5000 that had just landed ahead of them had not cleared the runway. Minimum on-runway separation was just over 1000 metres. It was found that the controller had not recognised that the runway was still engaged, but noted that the business jet had taken significantly longer than normal to clear the runway after landing.

Description

On 13 November 2018, a Boeing 737-800 (B-1918) operated by China Southern Airlines on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Yiwu to Hong Kong as CSN6045 was on final approach at destination and following a Bombardier Global 5000 (P4-AVA) operated by Austrian company MS Aviation for a private client and on a non-revenue international positioning flight from Clark, Philippines to Hong Kong in night VMC. The 737 received a very late landing clearance for runway 07L, and it touched down before the business jet had cleared the runway. This resulted in reducing separation, contrary to ATC procedures.

Note: A third runway to the north of and parallel to the two runways which existed at the time of this event was being constructed at Hong Kong when this event occurred. It was completed whilst the Investigation was in progress and the original runway 07L/25R was then re-designated as 07C/25C in preparation for the commissioning of the new runway in early 2022.

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