Incident · 2017-07-07
What the record says
- Event date
- 2017-07-07
- Event type
- Incident
- Highest injury level
- No injuries
- Aircraft
- Airbus A320-211 (NCFKCK)
- Operating rule
- Part 129
- Operator
- Air Canada Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- Air Canada
Probable cause
The flight crew's misidentification of taxiway C as the intended landing runway, which resulted from the crewmembers' lack of awareness of the parallel runway closure due to their ineffective review of notice to airmen (NOTAM) information before the flight and during the approach briefing. Contributing to the incident were (1) the flight crew's failure to tune the instrument landing system frequency for backup lateral guidance, expectation bias, fatigue due to circadian disruption and length of continued wakefulness, and breakdowns in crew resource management and (2) Air Canada's ineffective presentation of approach procedure and NOTAM information.
Source: NTSB case DCA17IA148Flight crew
No flight-crew details recorded in the NTSB accident database for this event.
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