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Airbus A320-216 AirAsia 9M-AQA 4404 Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 109 0 Minor Brunei International Airport (BWN/WBSB) - Brunei Landing Passenger - Scheduled Kuala Lumpur Subang International Airport (KUL/WMKK), Malaysia Bandar Seri Begawan-Brunei International Airport (BWN/WBSB), Brunei

Air Asia Flight AK278 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Brunei International Airport, Brunei suffered a runway excursion on landing. The airplane touched down on runway 03 and went off the side, coming to rest in the grass. An emergency evacuation was carried out.



Weather reported about the time of the incident (15:30 LT / 07:30Z):

WBSB 070700Z 28011KT 8000 VCSH SCT016 FEW017CB BKN300 32/245 Q1006 NOSIG

WBSB 070730Z 21009KT 3000SW -SHRA SCT015 FEW016CB BKN140 30/24 Q1007 TEMPO 24015G25KT 4000 SHRA

WBSB 070800Z 20008KT 3000SW -TSRA SCT014 FEW016CB BKN140 28/26 Q1007 TEMPO 24015G25KT 2000 TSRA



At 157 Feet AGL, the FO lost visual reference with the runway and decided to hand over control of the aircraft to the PIC instead of performing a go-around. When the PIC took over controls of the aircraft, he saw only a row of white

runway edge lights, which he believed to be the runway centreline lights. He provided inputs through the control stick and piloted the aircraft towards that row of lights which was the right runway edge lights.





Sources:

@501Awani #AirAsia skidded off the runway at Brunei International Airport. Photos via WhatsApp. pic.twitter.com/kCRblBneEr  Kamarul D Ajimain (@marul69) 7 juli 2014

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