Incident Overview
Date: Tuesday 29 July 1997
Aircraft Type: BAC One-Eleven 203AE
Owner/operator: ADC Airlines
Registration Number: 5N-BAA
Location: Calabar Airport (CBQ) –
ÿ Nigeria
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 55
Component Affected: The aircraft’s engine.The aircraft’s engine.
Category: Accident
An aircraft experienced a significant landing issue due to heavy rain and inadequate weather information. The aircraft overshot the runway, entered a ditch, and continued its flight through a bush area, resulting in engine fire. Visibility was reduced to 240m and 2800m, and a 240m cloud base was observed.An aircraft experienced a significant landing issue due to heavy rain and inadequate weather information. The aircraft overshot the runway, entered a ditch, and continued its flight through a bush area, resulting in engine fire. Visibility was reduced to 240m and 2800m, and a 240m cloud base was observed.
Description
The aircraft landed at Calabar runway 03 in heavy rain. The One-Eleven overshot the runway, went through a ditch and continued some 1500 m before coming to rest in the bush. One of the engines caught fire (post-impact). There was a 240 m cloud base and 2800 m visibility in rain. CAUSE: The hurried straight in approach procedure adopted by the Commander of the aircraft that may have been induced by the inadequate weather information he got about the airfield and the fact that the VOR Navigation an incorrect radial of the runway.
Primary Cause
The Commander’s hurried straight-in approach procedure, coupled with inadequate weather information regarding the airfield and incorrect VOR radial, induced a potentially dangerous situation.The Commander’s hurried straight-in approach procedure, coupled with inadequate weather information regarding the airfield and incorrect VOR radial, induced a potentially dangerous situation.Share on:
