Analysis of 35 years of landing overrun accidents

Landing overruns belong to the group of most frequently reported accident types in the world. Fortunately, landing overruns do not often result in causalities amongst passengers and crew. Despite this fact landing overruns can still be considered a major threat to aviation safety. It is therefore interesting to have an overview of factors that increase the landing overrun risk, the trends in statistics and in the influence of safety initiatives. A safety study on landing overruns of commercial transport aircraft was conducted which addressed these issues. Description This paper presents an analysis of landing overrun accidents of commercial transport aircraft that took place during the period 1970-2004. A total of 400 accidents were identified and analysed. The accident data were obtained from the NLR Air Safety Database. A data taxonomy was developed based on factors that influence landing performance. The data were evaluated through a straightforward single-variable analysis. This included developing frequency distributions of each risk factor considered. It also included an exploratory analysis that provided a general understanding of the landing overrun accident data. A central objective of this study was to estimate the risk associated with the various landing factors (such as excess speed, tailwind, runway condition etc.). It was therefore Report no