Aircraft and Incident Overview
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) released Aircraft Accident Report 2/2018 regarding a serious incident involving a Boeing 737-86J, registration C-FWGH. The incident occurred at Belfast International Airport on 21 July 2017. The report was published on 21 November 2018.
Report Content
The report includes sections on the history of the flight, injuries to persons, damage to the aircraft, other damage, personnel information, aircraft information, meteorological information, aids to navigation, communications, aerodrome information, recorded information, wreckage and impact information, medical and pathological information, fire, survival aspects, tests and research, organizational and management information, and additional information. Specific topics covered include erroneous entries of outside air temperature into the flight management computer, mis-selection of FMC thrust settings, human factors, and takeoff performance monitoring systems.
Analysis and Conclusion
The report provides analysis of the incident, including risks of the takeoff and data entry errors. However, the verbatim findings and conclusions are not included in the provided excerpt. The report also contains safety recommendations.
Investigation Details
The investigation was conducted under the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch, in accordance with ICAO Annex 13 and EU Regulation No 996/2010. The sole objective of the investigation was accident prevention, not apportionment of blame or liability.
This article is based solely on the information contained in the AAIB report excerpt.