Accident Report oy-p100206a/Oct 2011 - tail strike during night landing, Grenoble, 6 Feb 2010

Accident Report oy-p100206a/Oct 2011 - tail strike during night landing, Grenoble, 6 Feb 2010

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Author
BEA (France)
Category
Accident Reports Loss of Control Human Factors

On 5 February 2010, a McDonnell Douglas MD 81, OY-KHP, being operated by SAS on a non scheduled passenger flight from Copenhagen to Grenoble carried out a normal ILS approach to runway 09 in dark night VMC conditions, but the touchdown was made with the aircraft at an excessive pitch angle and higher than normal rate of descent and a tail strike occurred. Serious damage was caused to the rear lower fuselage but none of the 131 occupants were injured and a normal taxi-in and disembarkation followed.

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