First officer twice tried to stop botched landing before plane skidded off the end of the runway, NTSB says

The first officer of a United Express flight that ran off the end of a moist runway in Roanoke, Virginia last month tried to get the captain to abort the landing twice, investigators say.

The new findings are half of a preliminary report on the September 24 incident, just revealed by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The Embraer 145 jet, operated by regional service CommuteAir, got here to a sudden stop when it rolled past the runway edge and into a mattress of compressible supplies, an emergency stopping security system identified as EMAS. None of the 53 people on board have been damage.

Flight 4339 was too high when it approached Roanoke–Blacksburg Regional Airport’s runway 34 in a rainstorm, which the first officer famous to the captain, the report says.

“After crossing the runway markings, the FO called for a go-around, but the captain continued,” the report said. “About halfway down the runway, the FO called for a go-around a second time, but the captain continued.”

It is commonplace process for airline crews to abort a landing whenever either pilot calls for a go-around, but it’s not clear why the captain didn’t do so in this circumstance. In 2010, the FAA called for all airways to write insurance policies “emphasizing that either pilot may make a go-around callout and that the response to a go-around callout is an immediate missed approach.”

The incident is still under investigation. The NTSB says it’s reviewing the flight’s data and voice recorders at its lab in Washington.

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