A333, Port Harcourt Nigeria, 2019

A333, Port Harcourt Nigeria, 2019

Publication info
Author
AIB-N Nigeria
Category
Accident Reports
Date of publication
08/07/2021

On 31 December 2019, an Airbus A330-300 flew a night ILS approach to land on the 60 metre wide runway at Port Harcourt in undemanding weather conditions but became unstabilised just before touchdown when the handling pilot made unnecessary and opposite aileron and rudder inputs for which no explanation was found. Because of this, a late touchdown on the right hand edge of the runway was followed by the right main gear leaving the runway and travelling along the hard shoulder parallel to it for just over 1000 metres before regaining it which caused runway lighting and minor aircraft damage.

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