Royal Air Maroc B738 at Paris on Jul 4th 2009, touch down off runway and go-around
Last Update: January 21, 2013 / 14:56:13 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jul 4, 2009
Classification
Report
Airline
Royal Air Maroc
Flight number
AT-764
Departure
Casablanca, Morocco
Destination
Paris Orly, France
Aircraft Registration
CN-ROC
Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800
ICAO Type Designator
B738
The French BEA released their final report in French concluding the probable cause of the incident was:
the late decision of the crew to abort the landing, which led to the aircraft touching down aside of the runway.
Contributing factors were:
- the late proposal by the approach controller to land on runway 20, which left little time to the crew to prepare for the landing and thus posed a significant risk of destabilizing the aircraft at low altitude
- the absence of a specific approach procedure for runway 20 - the RNAV procedure for runway 20 has been introduced only on Nov 17th 2011
The French BEA reported that runway 08/26 was closed that day due to work in progress. Takeoffs and landings were thus performed all on runway 06/24 which led to the saturation of the runway. Procedures introduced in preparation for the closure of runway 08/26 had assigned runway 24 for takeoffs and landings, however, also had specified runway 20 was to be used for departures in peak hours. The BEA analysed that using runway 20 during peak hours would have avoided saturation of runway 24.
The BEA further analysed that runway 20 was not foreseen for landings. PAPI's were not turned on. CN-ROC was the only aircraft that was directed towards runway 20 that day, runway lighting and PAPIs were off. In addition, the operator had set the criteria for a visual stabilized approach to be met at and below 500 feet AGL, which was not achievable on circling to runway 20 from the localizer runway 24.
The BEA further analysed that the introduction of a specific LLZ/DME runway 24 circling runway 20 procedure, which would guide the aircraft about 300 feet below the glideslope of runway 24, would simplify the visual maneouvering.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jul 4, 2009
Classification
Report
Airline
Royal Air Maroc
Flight number
AT-764
Departure
Casablanca, Morocco
Destination
Paris Orly, France
Aircraft Registration
CN-ROC
Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800
ICAO Type Designator
B738
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