Created Saturday, Jun 8th 2024 09:35Z, last updated Saturday, Jun 8th 2024 09:35Z
An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration N879NN performing flight
AA-850 from Miami,FL (USA) to Kingston (Jamaica) with 168 passengers and 6 crew, landed on Kingston's runway 30 in heavy rainshowers but after touchdown veered left beyond the runway edge before returning onto the runway center line. After landing the crew advised ATC they might have collided with a number of runway edge lights.
A runway inspection revealed the aircraft had been fully onto the grass south of the runway, there was some debris found on the runway however no damage to the runway surface.
Jamaica's Civil Aviation Authority opened an investigation into the occurrence.
ADS-B Data suggest the aircraft touched down at about 145 knots over ground, crossed the runway edge at about 130 knots over ground, reached the maximum distance from the runway centerline at about 80 knots over ground and returned onto the runway center line at about 40 knots over ground.
The aircraft is still on the ground in Kingston about 31 hours after landing.
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