Thanks for the news update. Its amazing how often KQ get into such situations - heavy rain or not, I wonder what are their SOP's about landing in a heavy storm on a wet runway?
There was also another recent story about KQ... took off early in one of their new 777 for London, leaving some on-time passengers behind, discovered they had a gear warning and had to circle for quite some time dumping fuel before they could return to JKIA. On landing, they discovered that the gear pins "remove before flight" were still in - hence the gear problem. Someone with a flair for
PR told the waiting passengers that the aircraft had returned "just for them", refuelled, took the gear pins out, loaded the passengers before the crew realised they were out of duty time!!! Nice one fellas!!
Hadn't heard about the JKIA overrun though - and I operate out of Nairobi!! As I said, its amazing what they get away with - and how little information gets out into the real world!