The flight crew changed frequencies to Bristol ATC. The controller also told them to expect to hold for arrival at Bristol, that is, that they wouldn’t be able to route the flight in for landing immediately. London ATC instructed the aircraft to descend to FL160 (16,000 feet) and reduce speed to 250 knots. He resumed his briefing but was again interrupted as the flight crew received additional weather information, ATC instructions and cabin crew communications. Runway 27 in use, surface damp, low visibility procedures in force, surface wind variable 3 kt, visibility 150 m, Runway Visual Range (RVR) Runway 27 400 m, fog, sky obscured, temperature 10☌, dewpoint 10☌ and pressure 1035 hPa. He started his approach briefing as they started their descent but, as they came into range of the ATIS broadcast for Bristol (offering current weather and runway conditions at the airport), he deferred the briefing to take in the details: Bristol was forecast for fog so, for the return flight, the crew again planned a Category II approach and landing. As Pilot Flying, he planned and carried out a Category II approach and landing at Frankfurt without incident. The captain-under-training was new to BMI and new to the aircraft type he had trained on a SAAB 2000 and had just 17 hours of flight time on the Embraer 145.

They reported for duty at 05:40 for the flight from Bristol Airport to Frankfurt/Main and back. The two flight crew consisted of a captain-under-training in the left-hand seat who was Pilot Flying and a BMI training captain in the right-hand seat, who was the commander of the flight and who took the role of Pilot Monitoring. The AAIB released their investigation last week and it’s an interesting case involving that embarrassing mistake that I suspect most car owners have done at least once: leaving the parking brake on. There were 22 passengers and three crew on board.Īs the aircraft came in to land on Runway 27, it skidded off the runway and came to a stop in the soft ground next to the runway. On the 22nd of December 2017, BMI Regional flight 1822, an Embraer ERJ-145EP (G-CKAG), was a scheduled flight from Frankfurt/Main in Germany to Bristol Airport in England.

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