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Old 8th Mar 2006, 12:28
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southern duel
 
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Air Jamiaca 002 6Y-JMM was routeing East on "B". He was instructed to turn left on "K" and hold short of "Pluto".

He relised he had gone too far but still decided to attempt to the turn much to the First officers surprise.

The nose wheel infringined grass area 9B folloowed by the starboard and central Undercarriage. The starboard side demolished a yellow mandadory taxiway sign which in turn sits on top a concrete block. He tried to power himself out of trouble but with no luck. The nosewheel ended up on "A" taxiway
Pax deplaned on site and Virgin who carry out the engineering contacted the specialist BA recovery team to assist with recovery of aircraft. 27R Departures was de alternated to 27L and "B" taxiway which was infringed was downgraded to B767 with marshalling asistance.

Crew admitted their mistake and were very apologetic . They were breath tested as a matter of course.

AAIB were notified but declined to attend although MOR filed.

The aircraft was winched out backwards and towed to VS hangar for inspection. Still there now.

Due to the text book recovery and initial incident response apart from slight delays in "K" CDS regarding pushbacks there were no airfield delays and everything was back to normal by 11pm.

Another fine day at the office !!!
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