B738, Nantes, France, 2022

B738, Nantes, France, 2022

Summary

On 1 October 2022, a Boeing 737-800 first officer undergoing routine supervised training mishandled the touchdown at Nantes. The aircraft sustained substantial damage but there were no injuries. The potential consequences of an inexperienced first officer still undergoing line training attempting to land on the nonstandard runway profile at Nantes with little related coaching from the training captain were underestimated. The aircraft operator enhanced its management of line training, and a safety recommendation to improve operator awareness of Nantes’ nonstandard runway profile was made.

Description 

On 1 October 2022, the touchdown of a Boeing 737-800 (F-GZHA) operated by Transavia France on a scheduled international passenger flight from Djerba, Tunisia, to Nantes, France, as TO3943 in day instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and used for first officer line training was mismanaged by the trainee. As a consequence of a hard touchdown on an upward sloping area of the runway, both nose and main gear impact with the runway was hard. Nose landing gear impact, which resulted in both its tyres separating from their rims, was assessed to have been in excess of 6g. A second and final hard touchdown followed. The captain took control and taxied clear of the runway before stopping for disembarkation due to substantial damage to the aircraft including distortion of its airframe.

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