19Feb, 25 Flair 737 overrun: Fatigued captain pressed go-around switch instead of autothrottle disconnect
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Canadian investigators have found that a Boeing 737-800 overran at Kitchener Waterloo airport after its fatigued captain inadvertently allowed thrust to increase on one engine as the other was reversing thrust after touchdown.
The Flair Airlines aircraft – inbound from Vancouver in the early morning hours of 25 November 2022 – had been conducting an ILS approach to Kitchener’s runway 26.
It had been dispatched under minimum equipment rules with the thrust-reverser of its left-hand engine inoperative. The reverser was stowed and …