Investigation Report A14W0127 Risk of Collision B733 / DH4D, Fort McMurray Canada, 2014

Investigation Report A14W0127 Risk of Collision B733 / DH4D, Fort McMurray Canada, 2014

Publication info
Author
TSB (Canada)
Category
Runway Incursion Weather Human Factors
Date of publication
04/11/2015

On 4 August 2014, a Boeing 737-300 making a day visual approach at Fort McMurray after receiving an ILS/DME clearance lined up on a recently-constructed parallel taxiway and its crew were only alerted to their error shortly before touchdown by the crew of a DHC8-400 which was taxiing along the same taxiway in the opposite direction. This resulted in a go around being commenced from 46 feet agl. The Investigation noted that both pilots had been looking out during the final stages of the approach and had ignored important SOPs including that for a mandatory go around from an unstable approach.

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