Royal Air Maroc B738 at London on Jan 6th 2014, continued landing despite instruction to go around

Last Update: January 7, 2014 / 00:20:16 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 6, 2014

Classification
Incident

Airline
Royal Air Maroc

Flight number
AT-672

Departure
Marrakesh, Morocco

Destination
London Gatwick, United Kingdom

Aircraft Registration
CN-ROL

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

A Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-800, registration CN-ROL performing flight AT-672 from Marrakesh (Morocco) to London Gatwick,EN (UK), was on final approach to Gatwick's runway 26L still waiting for late landing clearance, while preceding landing traffic, a Germania Boeing 737-700 registration D-AGEQ performing flight ST-9972 from Erfurt (Germany) to London Gatwick was instructed to expedite vacating the runway. When CN-ROL descended through about 200 feet AGL tower began reporting winds in preparation for a landing clearance but stopped, instructed "disregard" and "go-around" as the aircraft was descending through about 150 feet AGL. The crew of CN-ROL acknowledged and correctly read back the instruction to go around, however, continued the landing on runway 26L, rolled out safely and vacated the runway.

The return flight AT-673 was cancelled.

The occurrence aircraft positioned back to Morocco as flight AT-8173 departing Gatwick after about 90 minutes on the ground.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 6, 2014

Classification
Incident

Airline
Royal Air Maroc

Flight number
AT-672

Departure
Marrakesh, Morocco

Destination
London Gatwick, United Kingdom

Aircraft Registration
CN-ROL

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

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