A333, Montréal QC Canada, 2014

A333, Montréal QC Canada, 2014

Summary

On 7 October 2014, an Airbus A330-300 failed to maintain the runway centreline as it touched down at Montréal in suddenly reduced forward visibility and part of the left main gear departed the runway edge, paralleling it briefly before returning to it and regaining the centreline as the landing roll was completed. The Investigation attributed the excursion to a delay in corrective action when a sudden change in wind velocity occurred at the same time as degraded visual reference. It was found that the runway should not have been in use in such poor visibility without serviceable lighting.

Description

On 7 October 2014, an Airbus A330-300 (C-GFAF) being operated by Air Canada on a scheduled passenger flight from Frankfurt to Montréal as ACA 875 had flown a daylight ILS approach. After gaining the required visual reference to continue the approach, forward visibility was reduced in a sudden heavy rain shower and the aircraft briefly departed the side of the runway immediately after touchdown. It then regained the runway centreline before completing the landing roll and subsequently taxiing to its assigned parking gate at the terminal. A number of runway edge lights were broken but the aircraft was undamaged except for tyre cuts sufficient to require two wheel changes caused by destructive impact with the edge lights.

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