Montpellier overrun

[blind pew]

From the midilibre.fr
737 freighter ended with the nose gear in the étang at 0230.
épisode cévenol over night.
Metars show heavy rain, reduced viz and cloud base with variable winds.
2 inches of rain in our pool from the overnight thunderstorms.

[mpprh]

Montpellier airport closed due to accident

A 737 freight aircraft had a failed landing in bad weather overnight.

The nose of the aircraft remains submerged in a lake adjoining the runway.

I am not allowed to post URLs, but the Montpellier airport website has the details.

[Auxtank]

Nose was submerged but three crew all out and uninjured.

[Liffy 1M]

Flight SWT5745 from Paris-CDG, operated by Swiftair. It's a 737-436(SF). Playback: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...c-nls#2d9584c8

[blind pew]

Would appear that they've now bent half their fleet

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/a...exeter-airport

[Doors to Automatic]

West Atlantic 737 Runway Excursion at MPL

Story here…….
https://aviationsourcenews.com/news/...irport-runway/

[SWBKCB]

Would appear that they've now bent half their fleet

Whose bent half of which fleet?

[N707ZS]

Wonder if they got wet feet.

[Leo45]

24/09/2022 01:00->metar lfmt 240100z auto 36021kt 2200 1200 r30/1600d +ra br vcts sct008/// bkn015/// ovc020/// ///cb 16/16 q1013 becmg 36010kt 9999 nsw bkn045 bkn055=

24/09/2022 00:30-> metar lfmt 240030z auto 09011kt 050v130 5000 ra br sct013/// bkn022/// bkn028/// ///cb 17/16 q1013 tempo 01015g25kt becmg nsw bkn045 bkn055=

[Speed_Trim_Fail]

Swift Air, not WA. One of the aircraft they transferred to swift, just hasn’t been repainted.

[Union Jack]

West Atlantic Mediterranean?

Jack

[sitigeltfel]

"The resumption of air traffic at Montpellier airport, closed since Saturday morning after the runway excursion of a cargo plane, could take place "at the start of the week" if the operations to free the damaged plane succeed, announced this Sunday the prefect of Hérault. “I cannot yet give you a precise timetable, we hope in any case that at the beginning of next week the flights can resume”, indicated the representative of the State, Hugues Moutouh, during a press point on the airport tarmac. Since Saturday, flights departing or due to arrive at this airport, located on the Mediterranean coast and which sees up to 197,000 passengers transit per month in the summer season, have been either canceled or diverted."

[blind pew]

[Mr Albert Ross]

Originally Posted by Union Jack

West Atlantic Mediterranean?

Jack

As the previous Poster has pointed out, operated by a "West Mediterranean" airline with their "West Mediterranean" crews, who 'swiftly' went off the end of a long runway.

[mpprh]

In a storm

[Mr Albert Ross]

Why did they chose to land "In a storm"?

Surely they should have held until conditions improved, or diverted?

Or, with the winds quoted above by Leo45, why not land the other direction that appeared to be more into wind???

There is no reason for that aeroplane (if fully serviceable!) to run off the end of a runway at MPL.

Not as 'swiftly' as they did.