Created Friday, Oct 7th 2022 19:26Z, last updated Friday, Nov 11th 2022 17:34Z
A Pelitta Air Service Avions de Transport Regional ATR-72-212A, registration PK-PAH performing a flight from Bontang to Sepinggan (Indonesia) with 38 passengers and 4 crew, landed on Sepinggan's runway 25 but veered to the right, the right main wheels departed the runway surface temporarily before the aircraft moved towards the center line again.
Indonesia's KNKT rated the occurrence a serious incident and opened an investigation.
The KNKT released their preliminary report summarizing the sequence of events:
During the flight, the pilots received meteorological report published at 0000 UTC (0800 LT) from the Automatic Terminal Information System (ATIS). The report indicated that the wind direction was 240° with velocity of 3 knots, and visibility was more than 10 km without any significant weather.
At 0827 LTC, the PM (Captain) reported to the approach controller that the aircraft established the localizer and was instructed to contact the tower controller. The PM made initial contact to the tower controller and was instructed to continue the landing approach. The visibility decreased to 300 meters, and the tower controller asked the PAS140 whether the runway was in sight. The PM responded that the runway was not in sight.
At 0830 LT, the tower controller advised PAS140 if the runway was in sight, the PAS140 was cleared to land to Runway 25, in addition the tower controller also advised that the wind direction was 240° with velocity of 12 knots, and the runway was wet.
The aircraft touched down and veered to the right, and the right main wheel travelled outside runway pavement. While returning to the runway, the left mainwheel impacted one runway edge light. The aircraft continued the taxi to the parking stand, and after the aircraft stopped, passenger was disembarked.
The KNKT reported: "About 1,100 meters from the beginning of the Runway 25, right main wheel marks were found traveled out from the runway pavement to the grass. The marks on the grass continued and about 1,180 meters from the beginning runway, the marks traveled into the runway pavement. A runway edge light, which located at 1,183 meters from the beginning Runway 25, was found broken. The tire number 2 was slightly damaged."
The KNKT, without quoting METARs, reported in the time between 00:25Z (08:25L) and 00:30Z the RVR reduced from 7043 to 200 meters and began to increase again reaching 281 meters at 00:32Z, the winds came from about 260 degrees at 15-17 knots, there was heavy rain at 00:30Z with few cumulonimbus cloud, 1000 feet broken clouds, QNH was 1010hPa.
