Sun Express B738 at Paderborn on Oct 20th 2015, touched down to the left of the runway

Last Update: February 19, 2016 / 16:34:22 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 20, 2015

Classification
Report

Airline
Sun Express

Flight number
XQ-368

Departure
Antalya, Turkey

Destination
Paderborn, Germany

Aircraft Registration
TC-SEE

Aircraft Type
Boeing 737-800

ICAO Type Designator
B738

A Sun Express Boeing 737-800, registration TC-SEE performing flight XQ-368 (dep Oct 19th) from Antalya (Turkey) to Paderborn (Germany) with 172 passengers and 6 crew, was on an ILS Cat I approach to Paderborn's runway 24, runway visual range (RVR) was reported at 800 meters/2600 feet. The approach was flown on autopilot until descending through 200 feet AGL, when the autopilot was disconnected. After the autopilot disconnected the aircraft's heading changed from about 240 degrees magnetic to 232 degrees magnetic and the Localizer deviation changed from 0.00 to 0.05, the heading subsequently changed to 243 degrees about 24 seconds after the autopilot was disconnected. About 14 seconds after the autopilot disconnected the GPWS automatically announced fifty, fourty, thirty, twenty, ten, the first officer called "Go Around Captain, Go Ar", the captain then stated "Ahhh, it was too late".

The aircraft's right main gear touched down first on the left hand edge of the runway followed by the nose gear and the left main gear touching down on soft ground at 01:02L (23:02Z Oct 19th). The aircraft rolled over soft ground for 260 meters before the aircraft returned onto the runway and was slowed on the runway. About 50 seconds after touchdown the crew told tower that they had "sat on left side of the runway eh just for information." The aircraft vacated the runway via taxiway D and taxied to the apron.

A subsequent runway inspection found three runway lights were damaged, there were glass splinters and dirt on the runway.

The aircraft received damage to four fan blades of the left hand engine (CFM56), the left retractable landing light was damaged, the left trailing edge flaps received two holes of 18mm and 10mm diameter, the left engine's thrust reverser received damage in three places and the left nose gear tyre received damage and was completely deflated.

Germany's BFU wrote in their October 2015 bulletin in German releasing the preliminary report into the occurrence, that there were tyre tracks of the right main gear starting on the left runway egde 630 meters past the runway threshold, 47.5 meters past the point of right main gear touchdown the tyre marks of the nose gear began and about 74 meters after right main gear touchdown the tracks of the left hand main gear began on soft ground. All three tracks were visible on soft ground for 260 meters before the aircraft returned onto the runway.

The captain (59, ATPL, about 17,900 hours total experience) was assisted by a first officer (28, CPL, 704 hours total).

On Feb 19th 2016 the BFU released the English Version of their interim report.

Metar in effect at time of landing (as provided by BFU in the bulletin):
EDLD 192250z 29002KT 0200 R24/0650N –DZ FG VV/// 07/07 Q1022.

Metars:
EDLP 200050Z VRB02KT 0200 R24/0800 FG VV/// 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 200020Z 25003KT 0300 R24/0900V1400U FG VV/// 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 192350Z 25003KT 210V290 0200 R24/0800V1000N -DZ FG VV/// 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 192320Z 29003KT 230V320 0200 R24/0800N -DZ FG VV/// 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 192250Z 29002KT 0200 R24/0650N -DZ FG VV/// 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 192220Z 25002KT 0200 R24/0800 DZ FG VV/// 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 192150Z VRB02KT 0200 R24/0800 DZ FG VV/// 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 192120Z 22003KT 0200 R24/0400N DZ FG VV/// 07/06 Q1022=
EDLP 192050Z VRB02KT 0300 R24/0700 DZ FG BKN002 06/05 Q1022=
EDLP 192020Z 28004KT 250V310 1300 DZ BR BKN002 OVC004 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 191950Z 26003KT 2000 DZ BR SCT004 BKN007 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 191920Z 22002KT 3000 DZ BR BKN008 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 191850Z VRB01KT 3000 DZ BR BKN004 07/07 Q1022=
EDLP 191820Z 21001KT 3000 DZ BKN006 BKN042 07/07 Q1022=