Description

On 24th December 2000, a Hawaiian Airlines MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-10 overran the runway at Tahiti after landing long on a wet runway having encountered crosswinds and turbulence on approach in thunderstorms.

Synopsis

This is an extract of the synopsis from the official report into the incident published by the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA).

"While landing on runway 04, in a storm, the airplane touched down about halfway down the runway. It overran the end of the runway and came to a stop resting on its engines, its nose in the lagoon."

The Report's conclusions include: