The HCL (Danish AAIB) has recently released a preliminary
report (in Danish) on a serious incident at Kastrup on 11 September 2006.
Cimber CRJ lined up while Sterling 737 was on short final. The 737 passed low over the CRJ and landed "long". Minimum distance was 10-15 m and 20 feet...
Scary reading...
English summary:
-Sterling executes a "hot" visual approach at night
-Cimber reports on taxiway/holding V2, but is actually on taxiway T (Cimber uses 1 min from T to V2)
-ATCO does not confirm Cimber's position report on the A-SGMCS
-ATCO does not use radar to check Sterling's distance from touch down
-ATCO instructs Cimber to line up while Sterling is on ca 2 NM final
-Sterling continues approach, despite not being stabilized according to company policy
-Sterling misses all R/T between ATC and Cimber
-Cimber does not check final approach sector visually before line up
-Sterling does not report short final (as instructed)
-ATCO does not use callsign when he (a bit late) tries to stop Cimber from lining up
-Sterling becomes aware of Cimber while they are passing threshold. Cimber was lining up via intersection 500 m further down the runway
-Sterling lands without landing clearance (they were not sure that they were cleared to land, but did not ask...)
-Single runway operations due to noise regulation...
Looking forward to the complete report...