Narrative:TAP Express flight TP1971, an ATR 72-600, suffered a landing accident at Lisbon's Humberto Delgado Airport in Portugal.
During the final approach on ILS runway 21 in the pilots encountered heavy rain conditions and wind gusts plus ascending and descending wind currents.
The aircraft suffered a hard touchdown, bounced, touched down hard again with excessive load on the nose gear causing both nose wheels to separate while the nose gear strut remained intact.
The aircraft still had too much kinetic energy and bounced a second time, touching the third time on the runway and rolling
on with the main gear and over the nose gear structure.
The crew and passengers were disembarked normally without any injury reports between them.
Probable Cause:
Probable causes: PIC/PF decision to proceed and force the landing not complying with the unstabilized approach criteria, with air speed well above the reference VAPP.
Contributing factors: Fatigue may have contributed to the accident by directly affecting pilot (PIC/PF) performance.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | GPIAAF Portugal |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 2 years and 5 months | Accident number: | 15/ACCID/2016 | Download report: | Final report
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Classification:
Landing after unstabilized approach
Bounced on landing
Runway mishap
Follow-up / safety actions
GPIAAF issued 2 Safety Recommendations
Issued: 13-MAR-2019 | To: White Airways | PT.SIA-2019-001 |
It is recommended to White Airways that incorporates bounced landing recovery techniques and rejected landing in their flight manuals, ensuring the practice of these techniques during initial and recurrent training as recommended by EASA on SIB 2013-20. |
Issued: 13-MAR-2019 | To: ANA, Aeroportos de Portugal | PT.SIA-2019-002 |
It is recommended that ANA, Aeroportos de Portugal, reviews its Lisbon airport emergency plan (AEP) in order to ensure a robust decision-making process for reopening the airport following a runway blockage event. It should also evaluate the airport support equipment operability and availability to assist the operators during aircraft runway removal. |
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accident date:
22-10-2016type: ATR 72-600
registration: CS-DJF
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Map
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Distance from Porto-Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport to Lisboa-Humberto Delgado Airport as the crow flies is 275 km (172 miles).
Accident location: Exact; as reported in the official accident report.
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.