Another hair rising incident by a Cyprus airline Eurocypria Airlines LTD.
Aircraft reg. 5B-DBV
Boeing 737-800
Date: 2009-11-09, 20:36 LT
Rough translation of the report of the Polish Accident Investigation Board:
http://www.mi.gov.pl/files/0/30675/2009962RW.pdf
Flight from the airport, situated at one of the Canary Islands-Fuerteventura (GCFV) to Katowice (EPKT) was the second flight of the crew landing in Katowice. The crew conducted the approach to runway 27 at epkt by ils system at atmospheric conditions at the airport at 19.30 utc: wind 210 °/2 kt, rvr for runway 27 was 350 m by the presence of fog, and the lower limit of clouds was determined to 100 ft
Minima for airport and crew for the approach in CAT I are: rvr _ 550m and cloud base 200 ft. After touch down to the left of the centre line the aircraft left main and front gear left the runway and then for approximately 373 m remained outside of the runway damaging part of the two edge lamps. The right main landing gear wheel during this time, remained on the asphalt of the runway.
The aircraft returned to the runway and has eventually stooped.
In his submission, the pilot (cpt) stated, that he probably took left edge light for non-existent central line lights. After parking on stand crew did not report any observations. FO of the anding crew provided the information for the crew from Katowice to Warsaw, that he will do the PFI– CPT of amending crew accepted this.
As a result, FO of the previous crew checked only left main landing gear without performing properly throughout the PDI-pre departure inspection.
When doing this FO did not have a flash-light for lighting of aircraft elements contained in the PDI procedure. As a result, he skipped checking the front landing gear, the right main landing gear and other items subject to PDI. In the action FO, has not detected damaged tyres of the front gear, right front wheel rim and headlamp on the protectors of the gears. Undetected remained corruption of the tyres right main landing gear internal wheels.
Each of these faults should have resulted in the inability of the aircraft for further flight until Exchange all damaged items. After returning to the aircraft FO reported to the CPT for the crew to Warsaw, aircraft is OK.
During the push back person monitoring this process on the ground, reported broken landing headlamp to CPT.
CPT asked FO of the previous flight (previous crew was returning to Warsaw on board of the aircraft) if when executing PDI he noted any damaged headlamp, FO reported "negative".
Therefore, the CPT minimum equipment list (MEL) allows him to complete the flight to Warsaw and has no objection to the efficiency of the aircraft. After loading in Warsaw and checking the status and tyres of the front gear, CPT wrote a ASR report entry, has filed it to the logbook, handed over the aircraft to the technical personnel, and then both crews proceeded to the hotel.
