Aircraft landed on opposite runway to that cleared for!

[Super VC-10]

Incident: Kabo B742 at Sokoto on Oct 4th 2013, touched localizer antenna on approach and burst body gear tyres (http://avherald.com/h?article=4697f219&opt=0)

A B742 on a Hajj flight in Nigeria landed on the opposite runway to that cleared, struck the localiser and damaged a number of tyres.

[Don_Apron]

Are you surprised? Well I'm not. All that Swiss cheese stuff was probably nonsense, as there would have been no Swiss cheese there in the first place.

This is the fruit of cancerous corruption and nepotism. I know, it is not only on the dark continent.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Staggering and incomprehensible. Don't they have radar?

[DaveReidUK]

Don't they have radar?Or, failing that, somebody in the VCR who looks out of the window occasionally ...

[Gulfstreamaviator]

windows in the cockpit.

[pigboat]

.. with 494 passengers and 18 crew, was cleared to land on Sokoto's runway 08 but landed on opposite runway 26..

...deflated while landing in Sokoto to pick up more pilgrims..

They gonna put them in the cargo holds?

[eastern wiseguy]

Or a d/f ?

[grounded27]

They gonna put them in the cargo holds?

The aircraft had capacity for 50+ more pax.

[latetonite]

Com'on guys, he landed on the correct tarmac!

[Don_Apron]

I think the problems in this case started well before the numbers on the R/W.

What about the OBS on the R/W heading? What about the ILS freq, if was operative? ADF, VOR needles. Compass heading? Looking out the window, as suggested before?

[FLYDHC8]

I think we might be getting it all wrong. From what I understand they were cleared for runway 08 but for some reason (which we don't know) declined to land on runway 08 and decided to land on runway 26.

Correct me if I am wrong but that is what I understood from the article.

[kip]

The local news here is full of twisted and wrong information about flightaccidents - but most agree that they were offered rwy 08 but asked for 26 - so if they really hit the llz antenna it looks more like a visual 26 that went wrong

[oceancrosser]

Staggering and incomprehensible. Don't they have radar?

You´ve got to be kidding... in Sokoto?

Two words:

Kabo, Nigeria.

Yes I have flown in the Nigeria HAJJ a few years ago. For Kabo. Never again. :ugh:

[20milesout]

Just love Nigerian media:

Saudi Bound Kabo Air Flight Carrying 400 Makes Emergency Landing In Sokoto After Tires Explode Mid Air | Jaguda (http://www.jaguda.com/2013/10/05/saudi-bound-kabo-air-flight-carrying-400-makes-emergency-landing-sokoto-tires-explode-mid-air/)

[phiggsbroadband]

Hi, are we being a bit mean towards the pilots of that plane, and should we not be directing some flack towards the Tower Controller?
I take it that at no time was he being radar vectored onto any part of the circuit, and was flying visually all the way.

The pilot must have intended from 60 miles out to fly towards a ten mile final on RW26. A ten mile final to RW08 is 20+ miles away and would have needed up to 20 degrees difference in course.

Then when he is on short final the Tower gives him the incorrect clearance to land on the other runway... enough to unstabalise any approach, and cause him to hit the aerials.

btw.. aren't the aerials each side of the runway, and not on the centre-line?

[DaveReidUK]

aren't the aerials each side of the runway, and not on the centre-line? Yes - if you're talking about the glideslope antenna, it's normally abeam the runway near the TDZ.

But this guy hit the localizer array:

http://www.europoles.com/uploads/pics/cb_fh_moskau1_l_06.jpg

[ChiefT]

Whew!: Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Sokoto As Tires Explode Just After Take-Off | 360Nobs.com (http://www.360nobs.com/2013/10/whew-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-sokoto-as-tires-explode-just-after-take-off/)

[AerocatS2A]

Then when he is on short final the Tower gives him the incorrect clearance to land on the other runway... enough to unstabalise any approach, and cause him to hit the aerials.

You know, I really don't think getting an incorrect landing clearance is good enough excuse to get unstable and hit approach lights.

[gcal]

Many moons ago approaching Lagos and clearance given to land despite there being another aircraft on the runway (moving slowly, not on a take off or landing run).
We went around but were then berated by air traffic control for not having obeyed their instructions 'Why did you not land when ordered'!
It's a different world.

[FLYDHC8]

gcal,

Like you said, "many moons ago"

[Naijajet]

gcal, there have been great improvement since then.
Infact all cadet controller now have to get at least a PPL, so at least they have primary knowledge of how tasking flying can be..

[FLYDHC8]

LookingForAJob,

Naijajet was specifically talking about Air traffic controllers in Nigeria.

[Finn47]

Pilot suspended:
Kabo Airlines has suspended its pilot who disobeyed Air Traffic Control to land its B747 in an alternate runway resulting in damage to aircraft and Instrumemt landing system (ILS) at Sokoto Airport last Friday.
This was disclosed in Abuja, Tuesday, by the Director-General of Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Fola Akinkuotu during an interactive session with journalists.
The Kabo plane was conveying 512 passengers from Kano Airport, to Saudi Arabia with a stopover in Sokoto.
The pilot did not comply with the directive given by air traffic controller on duty that the plane should land on runway 08 , but rather diverted to another runway.
- See more at: Kabo Air Suspends Pilot | Leadership Newspaper NG (http://leadership.ng/news/091013/kabo-air-suspends-pilot#sthash.UUBEcrpd.dpuf)


Kabo Air Suspends Pilot | Leadership Newspaper NG (http://leadership.ng/news/091013/kabo-air-suspends-pilot)

[Cyclopps]

Any reason as to why he chose to land Rw 26 as against 08? I know 08 has an ILS and for 26 its a visual approach.

[rogerg]

We went around but were then berated by air traffic control for not having obeyed their instructions 'Why did you not land when ordered'!
It's a different world.
Something similar happened to me at Kano one dark night in a DC10. We were cleared to land by the approach controller and at the end of the landing run were told to change to the tower for taxi instructions. The tower berated us for not getting landing clearance from him, and refused to give us taxi instructions until we asked him for landing clearance!!