The relatively inexperienced first officer (FO) of a Pilatus PC-12/47E had doubts about the captain’s high-speed final approach to a wet runway at Sept-Îles (Quebec, Canada) Airport but was reluctant to call for a go-around. The Pilatus touched down 2,525 ft (770 m) beyond the Runway 09 threshold and overran the end by 590 ft (180 m), according to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB).
The captain of the Airmédic emergency medical services (EMS) flight turned the airplane to the right to steer through the grass, around an approach light and back onto the runway, the TSB said in its final report on the Sept. 12, 2021, occurrence. Neither of the two crewmembers — the only people in the airplane — was injured in the runway excursion, and the airplane was not damaged.
The TSB included among its list of the occurrence’s causes and contributing factors the captain’s decision to demonstrate a high-speed final approach to the FO, who had 280 flight hours on…
