THY A321 and Egypt B738 at Cairo on Jan 4th 2018, loss of separation on simultaneous go around and takeoff

Last Update: January 5, 2018 / 15:34:51 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 4, 2017

Classification
Incident

Airline
THY Turkish Airlines

Flight number
TK-690

Departure
Istanbul, Turkey

Destination
Cairo, Egypt

Aircraft Registration
TC-JTF

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321

ICAO Type Designator
A321

A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration TC-JTF performing flight TK-690 from Istanbul (Turkey) to Cairo (Egypt), was on final approach to Cairo's runway 23R.

An EgyptAir Boeing 737-800, registration SU-GEB performing flight MS-709 from Cairo (Egypt) to Beirut (Lebanon), was cleared for takeoff from Cairo's runway 23L and had just become airborne, when the THY A321 initiated a go around from very low height, already above runway 23R, and joined the published missed approach procedure requiring a left turn onto heading 186 taking the aircraft through the extended runway center lines of both other runways 23C and 23L. About 20 seconds after the A321 went around ATC instructed the A321 to turn right onto a heading of 300 degrees, the crew complied and reverted to a right turn, about 40 seconds after the go around the two aircraft reached their closest point of separation with an estimated vertical separation of 400 feet (MS-709 above TK-690) and about 1.3nm lateral separation, then the trajectories began to diverge again, the A321 levelled off at 2500 feet as per published missed approach procedure. MS-709 increased their climb, then was instructed to turn left onto a heading of 180 about one minute after the go around, when the aircraft were already clear of conflict.

The A321 positioned for another approach to runway 23R and landed safely about 13 minutes after the go around.

MS-709 continued to Beirut, suffered a lightning strike on approach to Beirut and landed safely. Following a required lightning strike inspection the aircraft is about to depart for the return flight.

On Jan 5th 2018 the airport changed their ATIS to include a message: "In case of missed approach runway 23R turn right heading 300 and climb 2500 feet." However, no related NOTAM about the changed missed approach procedure has been published so far.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 4, 2017

Classification
Incident

Airline
THY Turkish Airlines

Flight number
TK-690

Departure
Istanbul, Turkey

Destination
Cairo, Egypt

Aircraft Registration
TC-JTF

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321

ICAO Type Designator
A321

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