Croatian investigators have decided that antagonistic climate and runway situations weren’t elements within the runway tour involving a Croatia Airways Airbus A220-300 at Break up Airport final month, though the precise explanation for the incident stays beneath investigation. The Croatian Company for Investigation of Accidents in Air, Maritime and Rail Transport (AIN) launched its preliminary report into the intense incident involving plane 9A-CAN, which occurred on Could 16 throughout an tried departure from Break up to Frankfurt.
In keeping with investigators, the plane had arrived from Dusseldorf roughly one hour earlier and was getting ready to function the scheduled service to Germany with 132 passengers and 5 crew members on board. Round twenty minutes earlier than departure from Break up, a short rain bathe had handed by means of the world, leaving the runway moist. Nevertheless, investigators concluded that the situation of the runway was passable and “couldn’t have been an element that endangered the take-off”. Throughout taxi, the crew requested a change from Runway 05 to Runway 23 as a result of wind situations, because the initially assigned runway would have resulted in a tailwind part. Air site visitors management authorised the request.
On the time of departure, winds have been recorded from 290 levels at 15 knots, with gusts of as much as 23 knots, leading to a crosswind part of 13 knots, gusting to twenty knots. The report famous that the utmost permitted crosswind part for the A220-300 throughout take-off is 32 knots. “The affect of the wind was not negligible, nevertheless it was under the permitted restrict”, investigators stated. The report added that one other Croatia Airways A220-300 departed from the identical runway roughly 4 minutes earlier with out incident.
The plane commenced its take-off roll at 13:27 native time and accelerated usually, reaching a velocity barely under V1 earlier than starting to veer left. Investigators stated the deviation initially developed step by step earlier than changing into sudden. The crew efficiently aligned the plane parallel to the runway centreline and rejected the take-off. The plane finally got here to a cease with the left essential touchdown gear on unpaved floor and the nostril gear in a shallow drainage ditch alongside the runway. Investigators categorised the injury as minor and repairable. The left engine and nostril touchdown gear sustained injury, whereas all tyres have been affected by skidding, together with a burst left nosewheel tyre. Further injury occurred when reverse thrust operations lifted particles from the bottom, affecting the decrease fuselage and left wing. The left engine additionally struck runway signage.
The company stated investigators have already performed interviews with the flight crew, collected documentation, analysed climate information and retrieved data from the flight information recorder and cockpit voice recorder. Additional work will deal with analysing the plane’s upkeep information, pilot coaching programmes, emergency procedures and information obtained from the flight recorders.
