Image: Alec Wilson from Hampton-in-Arden, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Boeing 737-400 crew had already prepared for an instrument landing system (ILS) approach to Runway 30 at Montpellier, France, when they were told that the landing runway had been changed to 12L. They prepared for the new approach but did not conduct a briefing, and on short final, they changed roles so that the captain became the pilot flying (PF).
The copilot — the new pilot monitoring (PM) — “did not carry out his monitoring duties,” and, as the mail transport airplane crossed the runway threshold, the crew did not recognize that they had encountered wind shear, the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et Analyses (BEA) report said in its final report on the Sept. 24, 2022, accident. “In particular, they did not observe that the aeroplane had exceeded the touchdown zone without coming into contact with …
