On 25 November 2022, a Boeing 737-800 landing at Kitchener/Waterloo Airport, Ontario, with the left thrust reverser inoperative overran the runway before stopping approximately 500 feet beyond the runway end. The captain had unintentionally selected the takeoff/go-around switch instead of disconnecting the autothrottles and then removed his hand from the left thrust lever to select reverse thrust on the right engine. The captain was experienced but new to type, and the first officer was a recently employed inexperienced pilot who had just completed his type rating. The left thrust reverser had been intermittently defective for the previous six months.
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On 25 November 2022, a Boeing 737-800 (C-FFLC) operated by Flair Airlines on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Vancouver to Kitchener/Waterloo as FLE501 overran the landing runway in night instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). This took place after the captain’s unintentional asymmetric thrust setting whilst operating the aircraft under Minimum Equipment List (MEL) provisions for one thrust lever inoperative on the second of two overnight sectors (legs) totalling nine hours flying time.
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