B752, Tulsa USA, 2022

B752, Tulsa USA, 2022

Summary

On 8 June 2022, a Boeing 757-200 making a night visual approach to Tulsa inadvertently landed on runway 18R instead of 18L as briefed and cleared. ATC did not intervene. Neither pilot recognized the error until the captain realized there was less runway ahead than he had expected. He had planned to "roll long," expecting a the turnoff at the end of the much longer runway 18L. Although both pilots reported not being fatigued, it was concluded that lack of recognition of their error suggested otherwise, and probably facilitated plan continuation bias aided by inability to efficiently integrate available information.

Description

On 8 June 2022, a Boeing 757-200 (N949FD) operated by Federal Express on a scheduled domestic cargo flight from Fort Worth Alliance to Tulsa as FX1170 was cleared to land on runway 18L at destination in night VMC. However, it landed instead on the significantly shorter runway 18R without ATC intervention. Since this was a much shorter runway than 18L, harder than expected braking was required to safely exit at the end. The two runways are just over 1500 metres apart. No traffic conflict in the air or on the ground was created as a result of the error.  

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