Incident: Lufthansa CRJ7 at Katowice on Jul 5th 2014, lands on runway under construction On Aug 7th 2014 the Polish State Commission on Aircraft Accident Investigation (SCAAI) released their preliminary report in Polish reporting, that due to the work in progress the ILS Category I was not in operation at the day. Upon contacting approach the controller asked the crew whether they would prefer a visual approach, which the crew agreed with. While on approach the aircraft flew through rain showers which limited the visibility. The runway lights as well as the PAPI of the existing runway were operating at maximum intensity. Tower relayed current runway conditions which was acknowledged by the crew. When tower noticed the aircraft had touched down on the runway under construction instead of the existing (operative) runway, he radioed the crew about obstacles on the runway and the necessity to stop as quickly as possible. The aircraft touched down on the right half of the runway (the left half still under construction), rolled out and came to a safe stop. The passengers disembarked onto a grassy area between old and new runway from where busses took them to the terminal. Following safety actions were taken as result of the occurrence: Airport: - improve and maintain runway closed markings, the operator introduced correct runway closed markings and changed the colour of the markings to red at both thresholds and in the middle of the new runway - use of warning lights on the closed runway - sent out reminders to all operators of the runway under construction and its location _____________ A Lufthansa Canadair CRJ-700, registration D-ACPJ performing flight LH-1360 from Frankfurt/Main (Germany) to Katowice (Poland) with 51 passengers and 4 crew, was cleared to land on Katowices runway 27 but landed on a parallel structure to the right/north which is to become Katowices new runway 27. The aircraft rolled out safely, there were no injuries and no damage. The airport of Katowice confirmed the aircraft erroneously landed on what is to become the new runway. Polands Accident Investigation Commission has opened an investigation into the occurrence. The return flight was cancelled. The new runways pavement has not yet completed, the runway edges are not yet paved along the entire length of the runway. The aircraft has to wait for the taxiways being built or take off from that closed runway that has no taxiways yet. On Jul 7th 2014 the aircraft was permitted to depart from the runway under construction and positioned back to Frankfurt as flight LH-9949. Metars: EPKT 051730Z 24006KT CAVOK 21/14 Q1011 EPKT 051700Z 23004KT CAVOK 21/15 Q1011 EPKT 051630Z 22006KT 180V250 9999 FEW050CB 21/16 Q1012 EPKT 051600Z 21010KT 9999 -SHRA FEW050CB 20/16 Q1011 EPKT 051530Z 23012G24KT 9999 FEW050CB 24/14 Q1011 EPKT 051500Z 23007KT 180V260 CAVOK 25/13 Q1011 EPKT 051430Z 22009KT CAVOK 26/11 Q1011 EPKT 051400Z VRB06KT CAVOK 26/14 Q1011 EPKT 051330Z 24009KT CAVOK 26/13 Q1011 EPKT 051300Z 23011KT 170V270 CAVOK 26/14 Q1011 EPKT 051230Z 22009KT 180V320 CAVOK 27/09 Q1011
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:22:01 +0000
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