B744, Halifax NS Canada, 2018

B744, Halifax NS Canada, 2018

Summary

On 7 November 2018, a Boeing 747-400F overran wet landing runway 14 at Halifax at night and was sufficiently damaged as a result of exceeding the available RESA to render it a hull loss. The Investigation attributed the overrun to a combination of factors including use of un-factored landing distance, momentary mishandling of the thrust levers just after touchdown, a pilot-caused lateral deviation diverting attention from deceleration, inadequate braking and late recognition of an approach tailwind component. Poor NOTAM presentation of runway availability also led the crew to believe that the longer and more suitable runway 25 was not available.

Description

On 7 November 2018, a Boeing 747-400F (N908AR) being operated by Sky Lease Cargo on an international positioning flight from Chicago O’Hare to Halifax as KYE4854 with an augmented crew and one positioning crew member as a passenger overran the end of the landing runway 14 at destination by 270 metres after making a night VMC approach. None of the four occupants were injured but both the opposite runway direction approach ILS antenna and the aircraft sustained significant damage and various runway and approach lighting was also destroyed or damaged. The damage to the aircraft was sufficient to render it a hull loss. 

The aircraft as finally stopped with the abrupt end to the RESA visible behind the aircraft. [Reproduced from the Official Report]

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Canadian Transportation Safety Board (TSB) assisted by relevant data downloaded from both the DFDR and the 2 hour CVR. Recorded ATC data were also available.

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