
American Airlines Jet Scrapes Wingtip Landing at Charlotte: Pilots May Have Violated Procedures
On Sunday night, an American Airlines jet scraped a wingtip while landing in poor visibility at the Charlotte, N.C. Airport, according to an article in the online version of the Wall Street Journal. It states that the NTSB is “expected to look at whether fatigue may have played a role in the performance of the pilots. They had been on duty for some 14 hours before the botched landing, according to preliminary internal airline data.”
According to the article...
ATC controllers alerted the pilots that the aircraft was off the approach course. Controllers then asked the crew whether they wanted to go around for another landing, but the pilots decided to continue the approach. Faced with an autopilot that the crew did not trust, they turned it off about 300 feet before touchdown and landed the aircraft manually. The left main landing gear rolled off the side of the runway and in the process of correcting, the right wing tip hit the ground.
The incident raises many questions including whether the crew followed American Airlines’ operational rules and procedures. Those rules apparently state that when on an instrument approach, if complications occur below 1000 feet AGL, the crew should climb out and re-sequence for another landing.
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