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G-iv flight crew reported landing on a runway that had a damaged aircraft still on it.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1584236 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201809 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Gulfstream IV / G350 / G450 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 42 Flight Crew Total 13000 Flight Crew Type 1087 |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying First Officer |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 80 Flight Crew Total 14000 Flight Crew Type 1000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Ground Conflict Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Procedural FAR Ground Incursion Runway |
Narrative:
Aircraft X was in the final phase of flight into ZZZ with myself and [my first officer]. We had departed from ZZZ1 on an IFR flight plan. We had the airport in sight and had set up for a right base for runway xx into ZZZ working with center. We switched over to CTAF at ZZZ and announced our intentions to land on runway xx at ZZZ after obtaining the one minute weather. The weather showed that the wind was favoring runway xx and we think that the wind was 320/5 knots. The weather was no ceiling and visibility was unrestricted.running our standard checklist; we had the aircraft configured with flaps 20 and were on right base preparing for gear down when someone came on CTAF and advised that there was an aircraft that had landed with his gear up and the aircraft was on the runway. [My first officer] and I kept the aircraft configured with the gear up and flaps 20 degrees; announced that we were going to proceed to fly over the airport to gather information on the situation at the airport. I was the pilot monitoring and told [my first officer] that I was going to recheck the one minute weather. There was no mention of any situation listed on the AWOS.[we] orbited the airport for 20 minutes (estimated) and worked with the airport ops that were on [CTAF] to assess what we would be able to do safely.after conversations with the airport ops and looking at all of the landing options; [we] determined that runway xx was the best option for landing. We ran the numbers on our FMS and the landing distance required was 2811 feet. We determined as a team that the downed aircraft was at the 5000 foot mark of runway xx. We asked airport ops what direction the downed aircraft had landed on and they confirmed that the aircraft had landed on runway xy and that there was no FOD for 5000 feet on runway xx. I was running the radios and confirmed with both airport ops and the van from [the FBO] (he was also on [CTAF] and was at the scene with airport ops) that all vehicles were clear of the downed aircraft and that everyone was clear of runway xx. [We] proceeded with the plan of landing on runway xx and turning off at X1. We had also briefed that if something did not look safe that we would go around and go to ZZZ1. We set up on a left downwind and continued to communicate with ops. Ops stated that 'landing would be at our own risk' and we acknowledged that we understood.[we] landed our aircraft in less distance than we had computed and turned off at X1 communicating with airport ops and offering any assistance that we could.[we] both felt that we handled the situation with safety in mind and after reviewing the far's; we can't find anything that says that we did not operate with safety in mind any way. We are filing this so we can learn from it and make sure that we and other pilots have the knowledge and tools to improve in the event that we are faced with a similar situation in the future.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: G-IV flight crew reported landing on a runway that had a damaged aircraft still on it.
Narrative: Aircraft X was in the final phase of flight into ZZZ with myself and [my First Officer]. We had departed from ZZZ1 on an IFR flight plan. We had the airport in sight and had set up for a right base for runway XX into ZZZ working with Center. We switched over to CTAF at ZZZ and announced our intentions to land on runway XX at ZZZ after obtaining the one minute weather. The weather showed that the wind was favoring runway XX and we think that the wind was 320/5 knots. The weather was no ceiling and visibility was unrestricted.Running our standard checklist; we had the aircraft configured with flaps 20 and were on right base preparing for gear down when someone came on CTAF and advised that there was an aircraft that had landed with his gear up and the aircraft was on the runway. [My First Officer] and I kept the aircraft configured with the gear up and flaps 20 degrees; announced that we were going to proceed to fly over the airport to gather information on the situation at the airport. I was the pilot monitoring and told [my First Officer] that I was going to recheck the one minute weather. There was no mention of any situation listed on the AWOS.[We] orbited the airport for 20 minutes (estimated) and worked with the airport ops that were on [CTAF] to assess what we would be able to do safely.After conversations with the airport ops and looking at all of the landing options; [we] determined that runway XX was the best option for landing. We ran the numbers on our FMS and the landing distance required was 2811 feet. We determined as a team that the downed aircraft was at the 5000 foot mark of runway XX. We asked airport ops what direction the downed aircraft had landed on and they confirmed that the aircraft had landed on runway XY and that there was no FOD for 5000 feet on runway XX. I was running the radios and confirmed with both airport ops and the van from [the FBO] (he was also on [CTAF] and was at the scene with airport ops) that all vehicles were clear of the downed aircraft and that everyone was clear of runway XX. [We] proceeded with the plan of landing on runway XX and turning off at X1. We had also briefed that if something did not look safe that we would go around and go to ZZZ1. We set up on a left downwind and continued to communicate with ops. Ops stated that 'landing would be at our own risk' and we acknowledged that we understood.[We] landed our aircraft in less distance than we had computed and turned off at X1 communicating with airport ops and offering any assistance that we could.[We] both felt that we handled the situation with safety in mind and after reviewing the FAR's; we can't find anything that says that we did not operate with safety in mind any way. We are filing this so we can learn from it and make sure that we and other pilots have the knowledge and tools to improve in the event that we are faced with a similar situation in the future.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.