Boeing 777-300 crash, Aug 3, 2016, Dubai
Boeing 777-300 accident on August 3, 2016 near Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates with no fatalities. Cause: AAIS (UAE): during the go around the...
- Date: August 3, 2016
- Aircraft: Boeing 777-300
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: AAIS (UAE): during the go around the thrust levers remained at idle and the autothrottle did not respond to TO/GA, which the crew did not verify; the crew were unaware the TO/GA switches were inhibited after touchdown. Contributing were the operator's automation policy, the absence of thrust verification callouts in the procedure, the lack of alerting by the aircraft systems, and late windshear information from ATC.
An Emirates Boeing 777 31H on flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram carried 282 passengers and 18 crew, and landed on runway 12L at Dubai in tailwind conditions with a windshear warning. After touchdown the commander flew a go around, but with the TO/GA switches inhibited both thrust levers stayed at idle, the aircraft sank and hit the runway 18 seconds after the go around began and slid about 800 metres. A center wing tank explosion later destroyed the aircraft; the UAE AAIS final report released in February 2020 found the pilots did not realise the engines were at idle.