Description

On 24 February 2010, a Boeing 737-800 being operated by Garuda on a scheduled passenger flight from Denpasar, Indonesia to Perth failed to follow the runway exit instruction given by ATC after a daylight landing in normal visibility on runway 03 at destination and instead turned right directly onto intersecting active runway 06. ATC then instructed an expeditious exit of this runway to the right via taxiway S and no actual conflict occurred.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). It was established that no runway exit instructions had been given to the aircraft prior to touchdown and that an instruction to “take taxiway November, second on your right now’ had been issued as the aircraft decelerated on the landing roll prior to taxiway ‘P’.

It was noted that the flight crew briefing for the approach and landing had identified taxiways P and N as the first and second exits from the landing runway.

The Final Report AO-2010-011 of the Investigation was published on 29 June 2010