Crew of overrun 767 at Miami not informed of wind condition during landing clearance

Investigators yet to specify whether gusting crosswind and tailwind contributed to fatal accident sequence.
Pilots of the Boeing 767-300 freighter which overran at Miami were not given crosswind or tailwind information during the landing clearance, investigators have revealed.

Meteorological data at the time of the 6 September accident indicates wind from 190° at 17kt, gusting to 26kt.

This suggests a crosswind component of 16-24kt and a tailwind component of around 6-9kt for runway 30.

If a tailwind component is present, US FAA regulations require wind direction and velocity to be given when authorising runway use.

But the National Transportation Safety Board, in preliminary information on the overrun, says the local controller “did not issue information about the wind” when clearing the 767 to land.

Information on gusting winds from 190° had been given to a different flight 4min beforehand but the 767 crew was not on the same radio frequency at the time.

The inquiry has not reached any conclusions regarding any possible contribution of the tailwind to the accident.

But the safety board has disclosed that the aircraft was high on its approach.

Flight-data recorder information indicates it was still descending at 2,000ft/min about 25s before touchdown, when the aircraft was at a height of 500ft.

The inquiry states that the crew received two ‘sink rate’ alerts around this point of the approach.

According to the recorder information the descent rate slowed to 1,000ft/min about 10s before touchdown – roughly the point at which it crossed the runway threshold, at about 100ft – at which point the captain called for the flaps to be extended from 20° to 30°.

This call was so late that the flaps had not reached the full 30° deployment at the point when the main landing-gear initially contacted the runway.

Investigators state that the jet was 3,750ft past the threshold at touchdown, and indicate that an abortive attempt at a go-around was made before the jet overran.

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