Cathay Pacific B773 at Vancouver on Feb 4th 2017, poor braking action, lightning strike

Last Update: February 5, 2017 / 21:26:15 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Feb 4, 2017

Classification
Incident

Flight number
CX-888

Aircraft Registration
B-KPL

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-300

ICAO Type Designator
B773

Airport ICAO Code
CYVR

A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300, registration B-KPL performing flight CX-888 (dep Feb 5th) from Hong Kong (China) to Vancouver,BC (Canada), was on final approach to Vancouver's runway 26R (runway 26L was not available due to snow clearing) descending through about 2000 feet MSL, when tower advised there had been a "poor braking action" pilot report from an A320 about 20 minutes ago, another aircraft had just landed, that crew also reported the braking action was poor. The crew of CX-888 decided to go around and requested to divert to Seattle,WA (USA). The aircraft climbed to 16,000 feet and diverted to Seattle for a safe landing on runway 16L about 35 minutes after the go-around.

Soon after approach reported that they were going to switch runways to 08, the cell - that had caused windshear with 20 knots gain on short final - had passed over the aerodrome, all aircraft already lined up for approach to runway 26R were pulled off the approach and those, who decided not to divert, revectored for runway 08L. Approach also announced that braking action on the runway was now reported poor to very poor, which prompted a good number of crews to abort the approach to Vancouver stating they were unable to land with such poor braking action. However, soon after runway 08R became available following snow clearing, which convinced a number of crews to continue to Vancouver for runway 08R.

Chinese media are reporting citing a passenger, that there was also a suspicion the aircraft might have received a lightning strike.

The airline reported the aircraft diverted to Seattle due to adverse weather in Vancouver. The passengers (including those without visa for the US) were taken to hotels.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Seattle about 13 hours after landing. The aircraft was supposed to continue for Vancouver to New York JFK,NY (USA), then perform the return flight.

A passenger waiting for the return flight in New York told The Aviation Herald, that the airline handed out a letter to passengers stating that the aircraft did indeed receive a lightning strike causing the delay on the continuation of flight and thus late arrival in New York. Another aircraft is being dispatched to perform the return flight.



Metars:
CYVR 050900Z 09007KT 15SM FEW014 FEW072 SCT120 M01/M02 A2962 RMK SC1AC1AC1 SLP033
CYVR 050800Z 08010KT 15SM FEW037 BKN120 OVC150 00/M01 A2961 RMK SC2AC4AC2 SLP029
CYVR 050700Z 09010KT 15SM FEW020 SCT055 BKN100 BKN150 01/M00 A2959 RMK SC2SC1AC2AC2 SLP022
CYVR 050600Z 08009KT 10SM FEW007 BKN020 BKN090 OVC120 00/00 A2958 RMK SF1SC4AC2AC1 SLP018
CYVR 050542Z 07007KT 10SM FEW007 BKN021 BKN055 OVC090 00/00 A2958 RMK SF1SC5SC1AC1 SLP019
CYVR 050511Z VRB02KT 8SM -RA FEW006 BKN022 OVC051 00/00 A2958 RMK SF1SC5SC2 SLP019
CYVR 050500Z 08003KT 2 1/2SM -SN FEW006 SCT012 BKN026 OVC050 00/M00 A2958 RMK SF1SC2SC4SC1 /S03/ SLP017
CYVR 050452Z 05002KT 3/4SM -SN BKN010 OVC016 00/M00 A2958 RMK SN2SC3SC3 SLP018
CYVR 050441Z VRB02KT 1/2SM SN OVC013 00/M00 A2959 RMK SN5SC3 SLP021
CYVR 050434Z VRB04KT 1 1/4SM -SN FEW005 SCT010 OVC016 00/M00 A2959 RMK SF2SC2SC4 SLP020
CYVR 050416Z 00000KT 4SM -SN FEW006 BKN010 OVC018 00/M00 A2958 RMK SF2SC3SC3 SLP019
CYVR 050400Z 26005KT 2 1/2SM -SN SCT006 BKN009 OVC015 00/M00 A2957 RMK SF4SC3SC1 /S01/ SLP015
CYVR 050352Z VRB02KT 2 1/2SM -SN BKN008 OVC019 00/M00 A2957 RMK SF6SC2 SLP016
CYVR 050339Z 00000KT 1 1/4SM -SN BKN007 OVC019 00/M01 A2958 RMK SF6SC2 SLP017
CYVR 050322Z 06003KT 3SM -PLSN BKN007 OVC019 00/M00 A2958 RMK SF5SC3 SLP017
CYVR 050300Z 10009KT 3SM -PL SCT005 OVC019 00/M00 A2958 RMK SF4SC4 SLP018
CYVR 050257Z 11009KT 2 1/2SM -PL SCT006 OVC019 00/M00 A2958 RMK SF3SC5 SLP019
CYVR 050245Z 11009KT 10SM FEW005 BKN019 OVC031 00/M00 A2958 RMK SF2SC5SC1 SLP018
CYVR 050200Z 08007KT 2 1/2SM -SN SCT005 BKN021 OVC031 00/M00 A2956 RMK SF3SC2SC3 PRESFR SLP013
CYVR 050104Z VRB04KT 1SM -SN BKN005 OVC015 00/M00 A2962 RMK SF6SC2 SLP030
CYVR 050100Z VRB02KT 1 1/2SM -SN BKN006 BKN012 OVC030 00/M00 A2962 RMK SF5SC2SC1 SLP031
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Feb 4, 2017

Classification
Incident

Flight number
CX-888

Aircraft Registration
B-KPL

Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-300

ICAO Type Designator
B773

Airport ICAO Code
CYVR

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