ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 319602
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| Date: | Friday 27 July 2018 |
| Time: | 04:53 |
| Type: |  Boeing 767-38EER |
| Owner/operator: | Atlas Air |
| Registration: | N641GT |
| MSN: | 25132/417 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1992 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 84172 hours |
| Engine model: | General Electric CF6-80C2B6F |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 250 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, NH (PSM) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN/EDFH) |
| Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, NH (PSM/KPSM) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Atlas Air flight 8601, a Boeing 767-300, suffered a hard landing accident at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, New Hampshire, USA.
The aircraft was flying U.S. troops home from deployment in the Middle East. An intermediate stop was made at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport in Germany, where it departed at 01:14 UTC. The flight made a hard landing on runway 34 at Portsmouth Airport at 08:53 UTC (04:53 local time).
The hard landing resulted in the fuselage skin being creased.
Probable Cause: an improper landing flare technique and the lack of the appropriate bounced landing recovery
procedure.
METAR:
07:56 UTC / 03:56 local time:
KPSM 270756Z 00000KT 10SM FEW060 FEW250 20/19 A2991 RMK AO2A SLP130 T02030189=
08:56 UTC / 04:56 local time:
KPSM 270856Z 00000KT 10SM FEW070 FEW250 19/19 A2992 RMK AO2A SLP134 T01920189 50004=
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