Arabia A320 at Tehran on Apr 12th 2024, landed on wrong runway
Last Update: April 19, 2024 / 17:08:56 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Apr 12, 2024
Classification
Incident
Airline
Air Arabia
Flight number
G9-201
Departure
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Destination
Tehran Imam Khomeini, Iran
Aircraft Registration
A6-AOK
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
Airport ICAO Code
OIIE
The aircraft remained on the ground in Tehran for about 4 hours, then departed for the return flight and reached Sharjah with a delay of about 3:15 hours.
Iran's CAA opened an investigation into the occurrence.
On Apr 19th 2024 Iran's CAA/AAIB released their preliminary report in Persian and English stating:
The flight was cleared by radar controller to follow ILS APP RWY 29R and tower controller issued landing clearance to land on RWY29R too.
At 10:15 UTC, tower controller just prior to landing understood that the aircraft is going to land on un-assigned runway 29 left instead of the runway 29 right. Since there was not any traffic on RWY 29L and no concern regarding safety of the aircraft, the controller did not interrupt the aircraft landing on RWY 29L and informed the captain of the event after landing.
Subsequently, for instituting investigation process, the pilots were interviewed by IR Iran AAIB while the passengers were on board for departure. In coordination with the state of operator and for reducing more delay, the CVR was deactivated to keep the related audio files for delivering it to Air Accident Sector of UAE in the destination.
At 14:28 UTC, the aircraft was released to continue its flight to destination, Sharjah International Airport with about three hours and thirty minutes delay.
The AAIB further stated:
According to the statements of the pilot in command, his latest flight to OIIE airport was about one month ago, when he had been cleared to land on RWY 29 left visually because the RWY 29 right had been closed at that time. He clarified that is why he landed on RWY 29 left visually again at the date of the incident. while he has been instructing the co-pilot, he partially payed attention to the context of ATIS of the airport about RWY 29 right PAPI lights unserviceability, but he had not considered the rest of ATIS content clarifying that the RWY 29 right had been operational, not closed.
Metars:
OIIE 121200Z 32012KT 9999 SCT040 21/M02 Q1012=
OIIE 121100Z 02006KT 9999 FEW040 22/M01 Q1012=
OIIE 121000Z 33004KT 9999 FEW040 21/M02 Q1012=
OIIE 120900Z 32010KT 9999 FEW040 SCT100 19/M00 Q1013=
OIIE 120800Z 32014KT 9999 FEW040 BKN200 17/02 Q1014=
OIIE 120700Z 31018KT 9999 FEW040 BKN200 16/02 Q1014=
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Apr 12, 2024
Classification
Incident
Airline
Air Arabia
Flight number
G9-201
Departure
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Destination
Tehran Imam Khomeini, Iran
Aircraft Registration
A6-AOK
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
Airport ICAO Code
OIIE
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