Description

On 17 May 2015, an Airbus A300-600 (EP-MNI) being operated by Mahan Air on an international passenger flight from Tehran International to Yerevan, Armenia as IRM 1150 touched down at destination after a non-precision approach conducted in day VMC just ahead of a notified displaced threshold. Minor damage occurred to the aircraft main landing gear wheels and to two of the elevated displaced threshold lights when the latter were hit by the wheels but the 211 occupants were not injured.

Investigation

An Investigation was opened by the Civil Aviation Department of the Armenian Government but a subsequent request to the State of the Operator to take over was made and accepted and the Investigation was carried out by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau of the Iran Civil Aviation Organisation (CAO). The SSFDR and 2 hour SSCVR were removed from the aircraft and their data successfully downloaded but only the FDR data was useful to the Investigation as the crew did not trip the CVR CB after the event and the relevant data was overwritten.

It was noted that the 58 year-old Captain, who had been PF for the sector involved, had accumulated 21,500 total flying hours which included 4,800 hours on type. The 34 year-old First Officer had accumulated 2,200 total flying hours which included 900 hours on type.