Air Canada plane skids off YVR runway - 03/29

[DorianB]

Breaking news reports in Vancouver say an Air Canada plane skidded off a runway at YVR this AM. No injuries reported.

Cannot find any more info anywhere yet.

[DorianB]

Saturday, March 29 - 10:41:12 AM Erin Loxam

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - A flight went a bit off-course this morning at YVR but only once it had already landed safely.
Air Canada Flight 034 had come in from Syndey shortly after 8:00am but then while heading to the terminal, ended up off the taxi-way and its nose wheel in the grass.
No injuries have been reported by the 267 passengers and 12 staff onboard.
They have since all been taken to the terminal and an investigation is underway.

[DorianB]

Air Canada plane turns off taxiway, onto grass

Updated: Sat Mar. 29 2008 14:53:33

The Canadian Press
Passengers on board an Air Canada flight from Sydney, Australia to Vancouver had to disembark the old-fashioned way Saturday morning when the nose gear of their jet accidentally went into the grass.

Flight 34 made a safe and normal landing, but when the Boeing 777 turned off the runway to the taxiway it went into the rough instead.

The 276 passengers were taken off using the mobile stairs, and then they were bused to the international terminal.

An Air Canada official says there were no injuries or flight delays.

The airline will conduct an investigation on how the jet made the wonky turn.


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[Fly Ginger]

What a great use of the the word wonky, eh........

[ACMS]

I'll bet the F/O left his hand mic hanging over the tiller.

Been there and had that done to me.................scared the crap outta me it did too. We could have come to trouble as well.

[DorianB]

Date: 2008/04/04
Narrative: UPDATE/Add Info from TSB: A08P0072: The Air Canada Boeing 777-200 aircraft, operating as ACA034, landed on Runway 08L after a flight from Sydney, Australia. The aircraft exited on the M5 Taxiway and attempted to turn right to proceed westbound on the M Taxiway. During the turn of approximately 150 degrees, the captain had to move his nosewheel steering tiller through a considerable arc, and the first officer's tiller moved correspondingly (the two are linked together). The first officer's tiller jammed on an object which had been stowed on top of the first officer's flight bag. The captain was unable to control the radius of the turn adequately, the nose wheel left the paved taxiway, and became mired in soft ground. There were no injuries and the aircraft was not damaged. The passengers had to be disembarked before the aircraft could be towed so that the nose wheels were back onto the paved surface.

[barit1]

Sound like straight from an Ernest K. Gann novel...

[FireLight]

Good call by ACMS that it would be the F/O's fault. :oh: :E

On the plus side, no real damage to the plane, just a few inconvenienced pax.

[brakedwell]

On the plus side, no real damage to the plane, just a few inconvenienced pax.

And two red faces! :\:\

[d71146]

Is it me or is it my imagination that there does seem to be a lot of this sort of thing going on these days with nose wheels ending up on the lawn so to speak either after landing or whilst taxying for departure.

[FullWings]

This is not really surprising as it's very easy to have something obstruct the movement of the 777 steering tillers, especially on the non-handling side. I've come close to this on occasions but the restrictions have generally been caused by something frangible, e.g. an aerodrome booklet that has slipped from the useless window clip, so you can crush whatever is causing the blockage.

I remember doing something similar when I had a road atlas propped up against the steering wheel and tried to negotiate a corner and it caught in one of the spokes... Luckily I was able to crunch the thing up otherwise I'd have been on the grass in a similar fashion!

[sleeper]

It happened to me to and it requiered a quick uncomfortable stop. My own handmike was preventing the tiller to move any further. A lot of pilots, myself included, got into the habit of stowing the mike into a crevasse near the tiller, this for handy acces. Company issued a note not to do this anymore.

[Andu]

During my line training, I left my A4-sized clipboard in the (folded up) drop down shelf that can be let down over the nav bag area. Scared myself stupid when the nosewheel handle was obscructed by the clipboard as we turned off the runway after landing. Luckily, I had space to back off the turn slightly and turf the clipboard out of the way.

[3holer]

Andu,
The exactly same thing happened to me with the A4-sized clipboard. Scare the hell out of me and it is funny that we are always learning in this business, even after 30 years doing the same thing.:ugh:

[Dream Land]

That couldn't happen on an Airbus. :E

[CONF iture]

That couldn't happen on an Airbus
True, DL ... but as the FBW steering handwheels also algebraically add, but without triggering any "DUAL INPUT" one have to be very careful especially during control transfer ... or grass is never very far.