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Old 8th Dec 2018, 14:23
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Re #35. This event should, must have a public investigation (‘An incident involving circumstances indicating that an accident nearly occurred’ - Annex 13).

Overruns are a top order issue in safety statistics, thus the industry needs all possible feedback to help reduce the number of occurrences.
The aircraft should have been capable of stopping well within the available landing distance; why didn’t it.
More so, why did it enter the overrun area, either ‘engineered’ or as recommended by ICAO, this event has used more than all of the available distance.

A ‘safe’ outcome does not indicate the quality of the decision to land; what were the factors influencing perceptions and decisions (PIREP), the operational safeguards, the assumptions, knowledge base.

If there were technical failures then discuss them openly; over-dependence on reverse thrust, autobrake.
If the conditions were not as ‘broadcast’, measured, assessed, then again we need to know why, particularly after the recommendations and changes from TALPA.

What performance basis does this operator use; manufacturer’s OLD / FOLD, or some third party, is the data digitised, what are the opportunities for miscalculations, … …

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