The following information provides an awareness of problems that might be avoided in the future. The information is based on final reports by official investigative authorities on aircraft accidents and incidents.
Jets
Standing Water on Runway
Bombardier CRJ700. Substantial damage. No injuries.
About 45 minutes after departing from Delhi, India, for a scheduled flight to Kanpur the morning of July 20, 2011, the flight crew asked an air traffic controller at Kanpur’s Chakeri Airfield for the current weather conditions. The controller said in part that the surface winds were variable at 5 kt, visibility was 2,000 m (1 1/4 mi) in thundershowers and the runway was wet.
The CRJ was nearing the airport when the controller advised that visibility had decreased to 800 m (1/2 mi), which was below the minimum of 1,200 m (3/4 mi) required to conduct the instrument landing system (ILS) approach to Runway 27, according to the report by the Indian Direc…
