Air France Jet Landed Too Far Down Runway
August 5, 2005
TORONTO – The Air France jet that crashed earlier this week appeared to have landed too far down the runway, which may have contributed to it skidding off its path and into a ravine before bursting into flames, investigators said Friday.
All 309 people on board survived.
Investigators said it was too soon to determine whether the long landing, combined with torrential rains and gusting winds, was to blame for the crash.
“We do have some information that the aircraft did land long,” the chief investigator for Canada’s Transportation Safety Board, Real Levasseur, told a news briefing.