Description

On 26 August 2008, a Boeing 747-400 being operated by Air France on a scheduled passenger flight from Paris CDG to Montréal landed on Runway 24R at destination and during the landing roll in normal day visibility veered to the right and stopped with the nose landing gear off the side of the runway. The final stopping position is shown in the picture below taken from the official report. There were no injuries and after a delay, the 509 occupants were disembarked from the aircraft onto buses. The aircraft was not damaged.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Canadian TSB. A post-flight inspection found no aircraft system malfunction. It was noted that the aircraft commander had been PF and was making his tenth landing as PF since qualifying as an aircraft commander on type after four years on the Airbus 320 as his first command and considerable service as a First Officer on the Boeing 747 prior to that.