Date: | Wednesday 24 March 1999 |
Time: | 12:10 |
Type: | Airbus A300C4-620 |
Owner/operator: | United Arab Emirates - Amiri Flight |
Registration: | A6-PFD |
MSN: | 374 |
Year of manufacture: | 1985 |
Total airframe hrs: | 12233 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4H1 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 271 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Rhodes-Diagoras Airport (RHO) -
Greece
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Dubai Airport (DXB/OMDB) |
Destination airport: | Rhodes/Paradisi-Diagoras Airport (RHO/LGRP) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Rhodes runway 07/25 (3260 m long) was wet. Due to the weather circumstances the crew of the Amiri Flight A300 increased the threshold reference speed from 134 kts to 144 kts. The ground spoilers were not armed. For braking reasons, the auto brake mode was set to "low". The thrust reversers were disabled due to a manufacturer's service bulletin. The aircraft landed with a speed of 166 kts, exceeding the Vref by 22 kts. The ground spoilers did not deploy automatically because they had not been armed. Consequently the auto brake system, which operates by the deployment of spoilers, did not activate. The crew attempted manual braking but they were too late. The aircraft departed the runway, sustaining serious damage.
The Airbus was partly broken up after the accident.
Sources:
Flight International 25-31 January 2000
ICAO Adrep
Location
Images:
photo (c) Tom Verheyen; Rhodes-Diagoras Airport (RHO); 03 September 2001
photo (c) Richard Wagner, via Werner Fischdick; Rhodes-Diagoras Airport (RHO); August 2003
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA); August 1994
photo (c) David Fraser; Perth Airport, WA (PER/YPPH)
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