View Full Version : Thai A350 briefly off runway at Phuket
readywhenreaching
22nd Sep 2016, 10:52
The only A350 of Thai ran off the runway on landing in rain.
No one was hurt, but the A350 will need repair.
2016-09-21 Thai Airways Airbus A350 runway excursion at Phuket » JACDEC (http://www.jacdec.de/2016/09/22/2016-09-21-thai-airways-airbus-a350-runway-excursion-at-phuket/)
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wheels_down
22nd Sep 2016, 11:45
Thai spin doctors out in play...
'Bad Weather'
'Last second wind'
'Pilot steered aircraft back to runway'
Nothing to see here move along now....
Metro man
22nd Sep 2016, 12:52
The 27 ILS is offset and has a relatively high minimum to cater for this and the nearby hills. The visibility on the two METARS is below the minima. Sounds like another OneTwoGo style disaster was narrowly averted. MD82 16/09/2007
The 27 ILS is offset and has a relatively high minimum to cater for this and the nearby hills. The visibility on the two METARS is below the minima. Sounds like another OneTwoGo style disaster was narrowly averted. MD82 16/09/2007
The only apparant similarity between this and One To Go is the location. Also was there an Airbus TLS pilot up front?
Metro man
22nd Sep 2016, 14:02
Same runway, similar conditions, pressed on with the approach below minimum visibility. The main difference is the MD82 went into the hills. This approach is offset by 1.4 degrees and doesn't provide the same degree of accuracy to touch down as a normal ILS. There is a noticeable downslope on runway 27 and the surface would have been wet. Required visibility is 2200/2300m CatC/D the METAR states a vis of 2000m.
peekay4
22nd Sep 2016, 14:58
That's METAR after the incident, but we don't yet know what was the actual RVR received by the pilots (e.g. from ATC) prior to the approach.
atakacs
22nd Sep 2016, 20:28
Not sure what to make of this massive cut into the tyre surface. The off-road excursion might have been not so minor....
DaveReidUK
22nd Sep 2016, 21:25
Not sure what to make of this massive cut into the tyre surface. The off-road excursion might have been not so minor....
Read the link in the OP's post. The aircraft destroyed several runway lights during its excursion.
Same runway, similar conditions, pressed on with the approach below minimum visibility. The main difference is the MD82 went into the hills. This approach is offset by 1.4 degrees and doesn't provide the same degree of accuracy to touch down as a normal ILS. There is a noticeable downslope on runway 27 and the surface would have been wet. Required visibility is 2200/2300m CatC/D the METAR states a vis of 2000m.
My point was One To Go was a very different 'affair'. Allegedly fraudulent training records, no one actually flying the aircraft during the GA etc...