What happened
On May 2014, an Air Canada Rouge flight, operating as AC1804, was conducting a flight from Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport to Montego Bay, Jamaica. The aircraft, an Airbus A319 with registration C-FZUG, was carrying 131 passengers and 6 crew members.
While operating under instrument flight rules, the flight crew was cleared to perform a non-precision approach to Runway 07 under visual meteorological conditions. During the descent, the approach became unstable. At 1429 Eastern Daylight Time, the aircraft made a hard touchdown that exceeded the structural design limits of the landing gear. There were no injuries reported, and the aircraft sustained no structural damage.
The investigation
The investigation focused on the flight parameters during the final approach and the impact of the touchdown on the aircraft's landing gear assembly.