A Philippine Airlines De Havilland Canada DHC-8 Q400 suffered a runway overrun after landing long in heavy rain at an airport in Busuanga, Philippines. Although there were no injuries reported among the passengers and crew on the flight, the aircraft reportedly suffered minor damage from the overrun.
According to Aviation Herald, the aircraft involved (registered RP-C5905) was operating a routine scheduled flight with flight number PR2680 between Cebu-Mactan Airport (CEB) to Busuanga Francisco B. Reyes Airport (USU) with 53 passengers and four crew onboard. The flight departed Cebu at 13:51 local time for the one-hour 20-minute domestic flight to Busuanga where it was scheduled to land at 15:10.
It was reported to be raining heavily at the time the aircraft made its approach to Busuanga Airport. Upon landing on runway 26, the aircraft was reported to have ‘landed long’, some distance from the runway threshold, and due to excess standing water on the runway, was unable to come to a stop before the end of the paved surface.
The plane eventually came to a stop on soft ground about 100m (330ft) past the stop end of the runway, where passengers were disembarked to the terminal. At the time of writing, the aircraft remains at Busuanga where its airworthiness status is currently unknown.
Footage of the approach and landing posted on social media shows the aircraft approaching the airfield in heavy rain and with poor visibility. As the plane passes over the threshold, it is still several seconds before the main gear touchdown on the runway before the engines are put into reverse-pitch by the crew. The plane eventually rolls on past the runway stop end and comes to rest some 24 seconds after the gear first makes contact with the runway.
According to ch-aviation, the aircraft concerned is 6.7 years old having been delivered to Philippine Airlines in October 2017. The aircraft is configured to carry 86 passengers in a single-class layout. The airline operates 13 of the type under its ‘PAL Express’ regional and domestic sub-brand.
