Description

On 17 January 2007, a Bombardier CRJ 100 being operated by French airline Brit Air on a scheduled night passenger flight from Paris CDG to Southampton could not be directionally controlled after touchdown on a dry surface in normal visibility and almost calm winds and departed the side of the runway during the landing roll. There were no injuries to any of the 36 occupants and there was no damage to the aircraft.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the UK AAIB. It was established that with the First Officer as PF, the aircraft had suffered a failure of the No 3 hydraulic system when the landing gear had been selected down on approach at about 6 nm - approximately 2 minutes - from touchdown. The aircraft commander had then taken what he believed to be the necessary actions prior to landing but “without apparent reference to the QRH”.