A fatigued B747 captain was exiting at a high speed taxiway when ATC directed that they roll to the ...

Narrative:

On landing rollout after positive change of control of aircraft to the captain was accomplished; he made a left turn toward a high speed taxiway at which time ATC again instructed us to roll to the end of runway and exit to the right. This event took place so fast my communication; and ATC's occurred at nearly the same time. Upon hearing me and the instructions again from ATC the captain applied heavy braking and abruptly turned the aircraft back toward the runway barely missing the taxi lights grass and runway lights while the aircrafts speed for a turn like that was excessive; aka above 20 KTS. We then rolled to the end of the runway and made the right turn off the runway cleared the runway taxied to parking stand without further incident. After discussing the event with fellow crew members all of us were very tired due to the long duty day that started with a 4 hour stop on the east coast and then the flight to europe. I think events like this could be avoided if a crew ferried the aircraft to the loading point and a fresh crew took the aircraft from there.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A fatigued B747 Captain was exiting at a high speed taxiway when ATC directed that they roll to the runway's end. The Captain abruptly returned to the Runway while braking heavily; narrowly missing runway and taxiway lights.

Narrative: On landing rollout after positive change of control of aircraft to the Captain was accomplished; he made a left turn toward a high speed taxiway at which time ATC again instructed us to roll to the end of runway and exit to the right. This event took place so fast my communication; and ATC's occurred at nearly the same time. Upon hearing me and the instructions again from ATC the Captain applied heavy braking and abruptly turned the aircraft back toward the runway barely missing the taxi lights grass and runway lights while the aircrafts speed for a turn like that was excessive; AKA above 20 KTS. We then rolled to the end of the runway and made the right turn off the runway cleared the runway taxied to parking stand without further incident. After discussing the event with fellow crew members all of us were very tired due to the long duty day that started with a 4 hour stop on the east coast and then the flight to Europe. I think events like this could be avoided if a crew ferried the aircraft to the loading point and a fresh crew took the aircraft from there.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1025086
Time
Date	201207
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZZ.Airport
State Reference	FO
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B747-400
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Person 2
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Speed All Types Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown

A fatigued B747 captain was exiting at a high speed taxiway when ATC directed that they roll to the runway's end. The captain abruptly returned to the runway while braking heavily; narrowly missing runway and taxiway lights.