Runway Excursion
 

Just heard on the morning news that there was an excursion at JNB last night.

Anyone with more info?

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_A...490450,00.html

Just found this link

Believe it was sa422,b737 from P.E.

Heard the chaos on 121.9,there were some pretty long delays for departure and 21L had to be closed for a number of hours while the maintenance guys checked for damage/leaked hydraulic fluid.

i believe they didnt evacuate,but were accompanied by a F.T. to the gate.

would love to get first hand details though,as i only overheard the chaos.

I believe it was a B737-800 running off the r/w on 03R - the runway was closed until about 09h30 local this am. Rumour has it that they took out some r/w lights and had some gear damage, apparantly loss of directional ctrl and exiting the r/w before the intended turnoff.

Rumour has it: Heavy rainstorm, lost visual in flare, the runway lights on rh side of 03R took out the tyres. Some damage to LE & TE Flaps, U/C and tail. Think we can all learn from it.