Vueling A320 at Berlin on Aug 29th 2012, 4.1G landing and tail strike
Last Update: November 20, 2012 / 15:46:21 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Aug 29, 2012
Classification
Incident
Airline
Vueling
Flight number
VY-1880
Departure
Barcelona, Spain
Destination
Berlin Tegel, Germany
Aircraft Registration
EC-KDG
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
The return flight VY-1881 was cancelled.
The French BEA reported the aircraft suffered a tail strike, Germany's BFU have opened an investigation into the serious incident.
EC-KDG has not flown since (standing Sep 4th 13:30Z).
On Sep 5th 2012 German Aviation Safety Service Jacdec reported the hard landing produced a vertical acceleration of +4.1G, the aircraft bounced and pitched up resulting in the drain mast at the tail contacting the runway.
Germany's BFU reported in their August bulletin released in November 2012, that the autopilot was disengaged at 700 feet AGL while on approach to runway 26R, the first officer assumed control of the aircraft. The approach was fully stabilized until about 100 feet AGL, when the sink rate began to reduce to 400 fpm, below 70 feet AGL the sink rate increased again to 850 fpm. The aircraft crossed the runway threshold at 25 feet AGL and touched down about 140 meters past the runway threshold at 130 KIAS and 500 fpm rate of descent producing a vertical acceleration of 1.9G. The aircraft immediately lifted off again reaching a height of about 8-10 feet and touched down a second time about 410 meters past the runway threshold the aircraft experienced 4.2G vertical acceleration and the tail contacted the runway, at that time dual input by both first officer and captain was recorded by the flight data recorder.
Metars:
EDDT 291250Z 26006KT CAVOK 25/10 Q1018 NOSIG
EDDT 291220Z 22004KT 9999 FEW047 25/10 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDT 291150Z 22005KT 9999 FEW040 25/14 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDT 291120Z VRB03KT 9999 FEW036 24/14 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDT 291050Z 28004KT 250V310 9999 FEW036 24/14 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDT 291020Z 25004KT 220V310 CAVOK 23/15 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDT 290950Z VRB03KT CAVOK 22/15 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDT 290920Z VRB03KT CAVOK 22/15 Q1019 NOSIG
EDDT 290850Z VRB03KT CAVOK 21/15 Q1019 NOSIG
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Aug 29, 2012
Classification
Incident
Airline
Vueling
Flight number
VY-1880
Departure
Barcelona, Spain
Destination
Berlin Tegel, Germany
Aircraft Registration
EC-KDG
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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