The runway-allocation system in effect at Schiphol
Airport and a B-757 flight crew’s failure to calcu-late the crosswind component were among causal factors cited by the Dutch Transport Safety Board
(tSB) in the dec. 24, 1997, hard-landing accident
in Amsterdam, Netherlands.37
Surface winds were reported from 230 degrees at 33 knots, gusting to 45 knots, when the flight
crew conducted an approach to Runway 19R. The report said that the airport’s nighttime preferential-runway-allocation system pre-
cluded the use of Runway 24.
When the captain (the pilot flying) disengaged the autopilot about 100 feet agl, the airplane
yawed five degrees right and began to drift left. The captain made control inputs to correct the
Figure 1
Common Techniques for Crosswind landings
Crosswind
Crosswind
Component
Component
Crabbed Approach
Source: Flight Safety Foundation Approach-and-landing Accident Reduction (ALAR) Task Force
Sideslip
Approach
drift. Just before touchdown, a gust caused an increase in indicated airspeed and nose-up pitch attitude; the captain applied nose-down pitch control and reduced power. The airplane had a crab angle of eight degrees when the left-main landing gear and the nose landing gear touched down hard. The nose landing gear collapsed, and
the airplane slid about 3,000 meters (9,843 feet) before stopping off the side of the runway. Three of the 213 occupants received minor injuries
while evacuating the airplane.
The Dutch TSB, in its final report on the accident,
said that the following were causal factors:
. “[the] runway-allocation system at Schiphol
Airport resulted in strong crosswind condi-tions for the landing runway in use;
. “By the omission to state clear and definite
crosswind limitations in the [airline’s] operat-ing manual, a defense barrier against unsafe operations was [absent];
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