AF A340 off rwy @ Douala
 

came to rest off rwy in bad wx
happened on AF 943. (must have occured sunday or monday)

link in french:
http://www.lemessager.net/details_ar...code_art=10562
any further information is greatly appreciated

I got very little ('non-journalisitic' ie relevant:{ ) out of a 'Babelfish' translation of the article except that there would appear to have been a lot of rain in the area. I think it implied there were no injuries and no-one from Air France would talk to them.

Yet another AF A340 incident? :uhoh: :eek:

Mon Dieu!
 

Can these AF boys please try and stay on the runway in future?

Not serious. Glad no injuries ensued.

Translation of link:
the aircraft came off the runway. the return flight was cancelled. there has been no official information as to the cause. there was heavy rainfall at the time of the landing. the aircraft might have been damaged. 'it could have cost the lives of several dozen passengers' (no reason adduced to support this statement).

A lot of words to say very little.

THe most succinct definition of journalism I've seen to date

And, it seems, of most PPRuNe contributions :rolleyes:

:ok: Hard stuff with :mad: AF management pilots....:ouch:

Didn't they also kill some cows in Port Harcourt some time ago ?

:) Yes they did it but I think they had not seen them !
Two other old incidents are also reported with A340 instructors: a tail strike (don't remember where) during a go-around and a runway excursion when landing at Libreville...That makes a lot with Cayenne landing before runway threshold (Instructor PNF) !:bored:

According the IFALPA Daily News Service (23-2) the aircraft made an approach in bad wx conditions (heavy rain). During landing the crew decided to make a wave off (G/A in close proximity of the rwy). During this procedure the runway was touched and the aircraft went round for a second uneventful landing. It is not uncommon to touch the runway during a wave off and the spoilers will disarm automatically. Maybe this is the source that the aircraft "left" the runway.

I have got another version:
The plane went through heavy rain during flare and flight crew lost visual references and then decided to interrupt landing by pulling up, but plane touched down ground partly besides runway.
It is said that pilots asked themselves if they had made a tail strike and made a long holding pattern to analyze the situation before landing again safely.
The plane seems to be damaged in the tale zone and will be flyed back to CDG to-morrow with no passengers.

absurdity !
 

this article is just an absurdity, it's not even in french, it's in a kind of cameroonese translated into french. I had to read it at least three times to try to get something out of it !! :confused: (I am french)
It basically says that the flight to paris is cancelled, because aircraft status seems under investigation.
so they realised that the day before, the flight has run-off the runway !!!!:sad:
there is not a single passenger of the previous day, that remember having such an experience on that flight:eek: :eek:
it even saying that af 340 might be old, an AF could be searched on this issues and could be placed on a camerronese "black-list".
for information, it became a state affair when france placed cameroon airlines in it's "black-list" a few months ago:hmm:
so please before posting such absurd news links, read it twice and think about it twice, the whole airline industry will benefit of it

some more...
 

approach in microburst, a/c landed on rw30, skidded off the runway into the gravel, tailstrike while going around, holding for 1 hour, landed normally.
parked on cargo ramp already for four days as cameroun caa has declared "accident" and a/c is evidence.

:bored: Another embarassing incident for AF, the Captain PF woud have been qualified 6 weeks ago ?

@ arc-en-ciel:
be sure that i ve read it as thoroughly as possible, found it confusing as well (blamed it on babelfish first) but at that time it was the only piece of information. now, as more "hard" information are coming through, it sure remains a noteworthy incident.
just for the records, can someone ID the A340 ?
other french links:
http://www.crash-aerien.com/www/news...d=2197&check=0
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200602220600.html
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200602220678.html

They say F-GLZM here:
http://www.ledauphine.com/info/france/art_61981.php

Maybe AF has had a series of "events" because they fly to many "difficult" or defective or in-need of improvements airports.

Rwy in Sight

In that case, Rwy in Sight, what on earth is the French CAA doing about it? Surely they've seen more than enough evidence to react?:eek:

Calling Inspector Clouseau!:}

Come on get real... please.