With pilot error and poor cockpit coordination being found as major contributors to the Caribbean Air-lines Limited (CAL) flight that overshot the runway at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri (CJIA) in 2011, the airline has been advised to conduct training for its flight crews to ensure they operate according to protocol.
Announcing the findings in the Guyana Civil Avia-tion Authority (GCAA) accident report of the June 30, 2011 crash landing of BW 523 at a news conference on Friday, Public Works Minister Robeson Benn said the Boeing 737-800 aircraft touched down approximately 4,700 feet beyond the runway threshold, “as a result of the Captain maintaining excess power during the flare, and upon touching down, failure to utilise the aircraft’s full deceleration capability resulted in the aircraft overrunning the remaining runway and fracturing the fuselage.”
Benn also said that the “flight crew’s indecision as to the execution of a go-around, failure to execute a go-around after the aircraft floated some distance down the runway and their
