Vietnam A321 at Hanoi on Apr 1st 2018, tail strike on landing

Last Update: July 21, 2018 / 16:23:15 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Apr 1, 2018

Classification
Accident

Cause
Tail strike on landing

Airline
Vietnam Airlines

Flight number
VN-1612

Departure
Pleiku, Vietnam

Destination
Hanoi, Vietnam

Aircraft Registration
VN-A353

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321

ICAO Type Designator
A321

A Vietnam Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration VN-A353 performing flight VN-1612 from Pleiku to Hanoi (Vietnam), was on final approach to Hanoi's runway 11L with a low time first officer flying the aircraft fully manually (autopilot and autothrust off). The first officer had difficulty maintaining localizer and glideslope as well as maintaining speed, the captain provided instructions to correct, the corrections made by the first officer were insufficient however. The speed decayed and the rate of descent increased, in the flare the first officer applied a large nose up input to arrest the descent, the aircraft nonetheless touched down very firmly with the tail contacting the runway surface at 11:08L (04:08Z). The aircraft rolled out without further incident, the crew was unaware of the tail strike and taxied the aircraft to the gate, where ground personnel discovered the damage to the tail. There were no injuries, the aircraft sustained substantial structural damage to sections 17 and 18.

The aircraft returned to service on Jun 17th 2018, more than 2.5 months after the accident.

On Jul 21st 2018 The Aviation Herald received additional information indicating that the aircraft was descending at about 125 KIAS, 700 fpm sink rate and about 5 degrees nose up until 100 feet AGL, then the pitch angle increased to 7 degrees (for flare) and the speed began to decay, about 1-2 seconds prior to touchdown the speed reached 112 KIAS, the pitch angle rapidly increased from 7 degrees to 10.2 degrees nose up, both pilots provided strong nose up inputs, the aircraft touched down at +2.2G (last sink rate reading 500 fpm), bounced briefly and settled normally again at about +1.2G and about 9.9 degrees nose up.

Metars:
VVNB 010500Z 15006KT 110V220 9000 BKN027 27/20 Q1015 NOSIG=
VVNB 010430Z 16007KT 110V210 8000 BKN025 27/19 Q1015 NOSIG=
VVNB 010400Z 16008KT 120V190 8000 BKN025 26/20 Q1016 NOSIG=
VVNB 010330Z 17007KT 150V210 7000 BKN020 26/19 Q1016 NOSIG=
VVNB 010300Z 14007KT 110V170 7000 BKN017 25/20 Q1016 NOSIG=
VVNB 010230Z 15005KT 110V180 6000 BKN015 25/20 Q1016 NOSIG=
VVNB 010200Z 14006KT 100V190 5000 BR BKN013 24/20 Q1016 BECMG TL0215 6000 NSW=
VVNB 010130Z 15007KT 4400 BR BKN010 23/20 Q1015 BECMG TL0230 6000 NSW=
VVNB 010100Z 12008KT 090V160 4700 BR BKN009 23/19 Q1015 BECMG TL0230 6000 NSW=
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Apr 1, 2018

Classification
Accident

Cause
Tail strike on landing

Airline
Vietnam Airlines

Flight number
VN-1612

Departure
Pleiku, Vietnam

Destination
Hanoi, Vietnam

Aircraft Registration
VN-A353

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321

ICAO Type Designator
A321

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