Engineers engaged by the airline also successfully replaced the damaged nose wheels which were affected by the accident.
Investigators from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority [NCAA] and the Aviation Investigation Bureau monitored the repair exercise but refused to speak to our crew in Jos after their investigation.
The AeroContractor Boeing 737-500, registration 5N-BLE performing flight AJ-345 from Lagos to Jos (Nigeria) with 87 passengers and 5 crew, overran the wet runway while landing in Jos at around 6pm (17:00Z) and came to a stop with nose gear and left main gear on soft ground. No injuries occured, both nose wheel tyres deflated.
The airline said that both nose gear tyres were punctured while landing in Jos causing handling difficulties to the crew, who however maintained control of the aircraft and stopped it safely.
All occupants disembarked safely, no additional damage occurred to the airframe. Engineers were dispatched to Jos to examine the aircraft and replace the tyres.
Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority said that the airplane approached the runway at a time of low level windshear causing an unstable approach and landing, which resulted in damage to a tyre and the airplane stopping past the runway.
Ground witnesses told the CAA they saw fire from the left hand brakes during the roll out.
No Metars and no local non-aviation weather data are available for Jos, Metars however are available for Kaduna about 100nm westnorthwest and Abuja about 100nm westsouthwest of Jos, both Metars indicating a thunderstorm cell went past the area around the time of the incident.
An infrared satellite image shows a distinct thunderstorm cell in the area.
Jos' Yakubu Gowon Airport features a runway 10/28 with a length of 3000 meters/9800 feet at an elevation of 1290 meters/4200 feet.
August 24, 2010
Jos air crash update: Faulty Aircraft removed
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