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| Title: | Serious Incident to MD-11 N803DE at Dublin Airport, 3 February 2002 |
| Micro summary: | Unusual wind conditions result in a loss of directional control for this McDonnell Douglas MD-11, which left the runway. |
| Event Time: | 2002-02-03 at 0805 UTC |
| File Name: | 2002-02-03-IE.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) |
| Publishing Country: | Ireland |
| Report number: | 2000/006 |
| Pages: | 107 |
| Site of event: | Runway 28 Dublin |
| Departure: | William B. Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Destination: | Dublin Airport, Dublin, Ireland |
| Airplane Type(s): | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 |
| Flight Phase: | Landing |
| Registration(s): | N803DE |
| Operator(s): | Delta Air Lines |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 181 |
| Fatalities: | 0 |
| Serious Injuries: | 0 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 181 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | During its landing rollout on RWY 28 at EIDW, the MD 11, registered N803DE1 (Delta 129) started to initially drift towards the right and then slowly to the left-hand side of the runway. Efforts by the Captain, the pilot-flying (PF), to counteract this drift through the application of full right rudder and right tiller failed, and the aircraft departed the paved surface into the prepared graded ground, which was rain soaked. The Captain chose not to evacuate the passengers and crew through the emergency escape slides, preferring instead to wait for outside assistance and disembarkation by mobile stairs. After approximately two hours, passengers and crew commenced disembarkation through the forward right-side (R2) cabin door and down the mobile stairs where they were immediately bussed to the terminal building. There were no reported injuries. The cause of the runway excursion was that the aircraft was subjected to an unexpected and sudden wind gust during the initial stages of the landing rollout, inducing a rate of yaw to the left, which could not be controlled by the pilot flying. |
| Learning Keywords: | Operations - Slippery Runway, Taxiway, Apron |
| Operations - Upset - Uncommanded or excessive Yaw |
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