Plane lands on Taxiway in Cagliari by mistake

tracker-man

Italian investigators have opened an inquiry after a Ryanair aircraft touched down on a taxiway while landing at Cagliari today, three days after the airport's runway re-opened after modernisation.

While details of the incident are sketchy, the Italian civil aviation administration ENAC states that the aircraft had been arriving at the Sardinian airport from Girona in Spain.
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*Kol*

I think the taxiway had been in use as a runway up till last week?

FOGOFUNK

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But in seriousness, how can this have happened?

tracker-man

You have to be careful what you say round here anymore :rolleyes: :pac:

enda1

Plane lands 100m closer to terminal. Oh O'Leary, what will he think of next :P

pclancy

FOGOFUNK can you not read the sticky? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055521305

Comments like that are stupid and open us up to libel action. Next time ban time.

PhoenixRising

Lucky there was no one taxiing out to the runway or vehicles on the taxiway. This could have been a nasty one.

FOGOFUNK

pclancy wrote: »

FOGOFUNK can you not read the sticky? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055521305

Comments like that are stupid and open us up to libel action. Next time ban time.

Im sorry, I just couldnt help it, I am far from a ryanair basher as can be, it just was so perfect.

pclancy

Legality aside, I dont see any point in scaremongering the general boards population into thinking any airlines are more unsafe then others. Its happened to several airlines over the years at different locations around the world and at that airport was probably waiting to happen.

FOGOFUNK

Legality aside, I think most of the A&A forum users would have gotten the joke.


And that the general boards population doesnt know what a taxiway is.:)

tracker-man

does the fact that the taxiway was being used as a runway only a few weeks before the incident make it any more forgivable? I'm sure there will be an investigation, maybe it was something simple like not reading a notam or there not being a notam to say the runway was back in use

Stevek101

Runway markings are still on the taxi way there is loads of stories regarding this which make it sound less and less likely the pilots fault.

PhoenixRising

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/04/12/325060/inquiry-as-ryanair-flight-lands-on-taxiway-at-cagliari.html

Inquiry as Ryanair flight lands on taxiway at Cagliari
By David Kaminski-Morrow

Italian investigators have opened an inquiry after a Ryanair aircraft touched down on a taxiway while landing at Cagliari today, three days after the airport's runway re-opened after modernisation.

While details of the incident are sketchy, the Italian civil aviation administration ENAC states that the aircraft had been arriving at the Sardinian airport from Girona in Spain.

Ryanair's timetable shows that the airline operates a morning flight, FR9265, on the route. Cagliari Airport's arrival information states that this service landed at 11:32 today.

ENAC has not stated the aircraft type involved but Ryanair has a fleet exclusively comprising Boeing 737-800s.

It says that the flight landed "not on the runway" but on the taxiing strip. Weather data at the time suggests low cloud, light rain and mist, but 4km visibility.

Cagliari Airport's runway 14/32 re-opened on 9 April following a modernisation programme which included installing sensors in the pavement layers to monitor stresses created by departing and arriving aircraft. The data collected will be used to refine maintenance.

In the interim the airport had used its main taxiway as a secondary runway.

ENAC says no-one was injured in the Ryanair incident but it is to examine the "level of preparedness" of the crew. Ryanair could not immediately be reached for comment on the event.

Davidth88

I have flown into Cagliari many many times ( all be it as a passenger )

The runway was dug up and re-surfaced , and a parallel taxiway was used as a temp runway for the last 2 years nearly , the first time we landed on it I was wondering what the hell was happening ( things looked different to the time before ).

I have not been there since the new runway opened , but I can only speculate that the FR guys were perhaps not using up to date info ? and doing a visual landing ? ( professional pilots here can laugh and my ignorance if you want )

I imagine they landed on the runway that was in use until last week , so unless something was taxiing ( which I would like to think they were looking for traffic ) there was no real danger .

A very similar thing happened in LGW years ago , they have a taxiway there that can be used as a runway and someone landed on it when it wasn't in use...

FlutterinBantam

AAh Dave, you will always get the lads who laugh, the smart lads and lassies are everywhere.

Flutt thinks you are not too far away from the truth if that's any consolation;)

Good man and keep posting.

Davidth88

Jeez now I feel really old !!!

The incident in LGW was in 1988 !!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gatwick-neardisaster-is-blamed-on-aviation-body-1422677.html

Foggy43

Thank you Dave! I was working in Stansted at the time. Let's not mention the year again.
Pilots have told me that the only way to visual the runways at LHR is by looking for the long grass strips on either side. Everything else around for miles is concrete.

Then there ws that runway 23 at LHR....... Maybe it is runway 25 Northolt we just landed on.

Davidth88

Now you are talking ancient history


Years ago , ( I don't actually remember it but I read about it ) a TWA 707 landed at Northolt thinking it was Heathrow.

They used to use the Gasometer ( Large gas storage tanks ) as a visual aid to land at LHR. However there was a similar gasometer in South Harrow , directly on line to Northolt. ..... you can guess the rest.

Anyway I still remember the gasometer in South Harrow with a HUGE NO painted on it

PhoenixRising

A few more details here:
http://avherald.com/h?article=417f434b&opt=0

Storm 10

Just picked up this comment from the Pilots Forum on pprune

It seems they Ryanair guys are not alone on this one as it appears this Airport is a nightmare. I would say the Ryanair guys have nothing to worry about

Until yesterday the taxiway was being used to land on as the main runway was getting new tarmac.


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Carmoisine

CAG is most disorganized, haphazard, "anything goes" airport in Europe. How can one be expected to be prepared when it is not at all untypical to be cleared for up to 7 different approaches from top of descent to landing!? Only when crossing the threshold can one be certain of the approach type and can one be certain of the runway in use. Even as low as 1000ft they will attempt to spring a circling approach on crews.

Every single visit we make there sees a lack of professionalism, effort and downright negligence by both Rome Control and CAG approach brought to ever higher levels. It is total chaos every single time. One only has to look at the Meridiana incident a while back to see what total incompetents the ATC and ENAC in general are.

Davidth88

ohhhh lord that fills me with confidence considering I fly there all the time ...


From a passenger point of view , nice little airport !

FlutterinBantam

If I remember correctly it is one of the aviation black spots in Europe.