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| Title: | Runway overrun, MD-11 World Airways (N272WA) at Shannon Airport, September 18, 1999 |
| Micro summary: | This MD-11 bounced on landing, preventing activation of the spoilers and resulting in a runway overrun. |
| Event Time: | 1999-09-18 at 0524 |
| File Name: | 1999-09-18-IE.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) |
| Publishing Country: | Ireland |
| Report number: | 2001/006 |
| Pages: | 13 |
| Site of event: | Shannon Airport |
| Departure: | John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York, USA |
| Destination: | Shannon International Airport, Shannon, Ireland |
| Airplane Type(s): | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 |
| Flight Phase: | Landing |
| Registration(s): | N272WA |
| Operator(s): | World Airways |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 331 |
| Fatalities: | 0 |
| Serious Injuries: | 0 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 331 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | The incident followed an uneventful Trans-Atlantic flight and approach to Runway (RWY) 24 at Shannon Airport. On landing, the aircraft bounced a number of times and the ground spoilers did not deploy. While the pilot applied maximum thrust reverse and maximum manual braking, complete deceleration was not achieved in sufficient time to stop the aircraft departing the end of RWY 24 and rolling some 230 ft into the grass over-run area. Once stopped, the aircraft commander shut down the engines and the aircraft was evacuated in an orderly fashion through the normal entry/exit doors. Consequently, the airport was closed to commercial operations until 1245 hours, when the aircraft was towed back to the ramp. Causal Factors The late selection of 50º flap destabilized what had otherwise been a stabilized approach, placing the aircraft in a position from which a normal touchdown and landing roll-out could not be effected within the remaining landing distance available. |
| Learning Keywords: | Operations - Bounce |
| Operations - Braking Issues (General) | |
| Operations - Evacuation | |
| Operations - Runway Overrun | |
| Systems - Flight Controls - Spoilers - Slats - Flaps | |
| Systems - Landing Gear |
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