Wizz Ukraine A320 at Kiev on May 20th 2013, hard landing
Last Update: July 12, 2013 / 16:02:41 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 20, 2013
Classification
Incident
Cause
Hard landing
Airline
Wizz Air Ukraine
Flight number
WU-6104
Departure
Memmingen, Germany
Destination
Kiev Zhulhany, Ukraine
Aircraft Registration
UR-WUB
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
Airport ICAO Code
UKKK
The incident aircraft was able to resume service about 8.5 hours after landing.
Ukraine's Ministry of Transport reported in their monthy bulletin that the approach became bumpy while descending below 1000 feet AGL due to thermal warming of earth in variable winds. The pilot flying therefore decided to disconnect autopilot and autothrust and flew the approach manually, the Vapp was computed to 134 KIAS. The speed oscillated around that value for most of the final approach, in the last 5 seconds the speed decayed to 124 KIAS prompting a speed call from the pilot montoring, the engines were not accelerated, the pitch angle increased from about 3 to 7.4 degrees nose up during the flare. The aircraft touched down at a vertical acceleration of 2.62G as "result of the untimely actions by the pilot flying". The investigation commission concluded the incident was caused by a delayed engine acceleration with autothrust disengaged leading to a decrease of speed, increase of rate of descent and a hard touch down.
Metars:
UKKK 201000Z 20003MPS 140V260 CAVOK 27/12 Q1013 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200930Z 14003MPS 090V200 CAVOK 26/13 Q1013 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200900Z 16003MPS 110V220 CAVOK 26/13 Q1014 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200830Z 15002MPS CAVOK 26/15 Q1014 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200800Z 15002MPS 090V200 CAVOK 25/15 Q1014 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200730Z 12003MPS 090V180 CAVOK 24/15 Q1014 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200700Z 14002MPS 080V200 CAVOK 24/12 Q1014 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200630Z 09003MPS CAVOK 23/14 Q1014 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200600Z 12002MPS 080V150 CAVOK 22/14 Q1014 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200530Z 11002MPS 080V150 CAVOK 21/15 Q1014 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
UKKK 200500Z 11003MPS CAVOK 21/14 Q1015 08CLRD70 NOSIG=
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 20, 2013
Classification
Incident
Cause
Hard landing
Airline
Wizz Air Ukraine
Flight number
WU-6104
Departure
Memmingen, Germany
Destination
Kiev Zhulhany, Ukraine
Aircraft Registration
UR-WUB
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
Airport ICAO Code
UKKK
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