Created Sunday, May 11th 2025 18:53Z, last updated Sunday, Aug 10th 2025 09:55Z
A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200N, registration TC-LSL performing flight
TK-1771 from Istanbul (Turkey) to Prague (Czech Republic), landed on Prague's runway 12 at 14:19L (12:19Z) when the crew initiated a go around, however the tail contacted the runway surface. The aircraft climbed out to 4000 feet, positioned for another approach and landed on runway 12 without further incident about 15 minutes later and taxied to the apron.
The return flight TK-1772 was cancelled.
On May 23rd 2025 UZPLN rported the occurrence was rated a serious incident and is being investigated. The aircraft bounced during landing, the crew performed a go around, and the aircraft tail contacted the runway surface.
On Jul 24th 2025 the UZPLN added that the crew performed an ILS approach to runway 12 under VMC, the captain assessed the hard landing as a reason to go around but needed to command the go around three times before the first officer initiated the go around. The captain did not take control of the aircraft according to standard operations procedures but intervened on the side stick resulting in dual input (summing of both inputs by captain and first officer). A large pitch caused the aircraft's tail to contact the runway surface leaving an about 15 meter long track.
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