# Incident 20100121027669I: Boeing 737-3H4, San Diego, CA, January 21, 2010

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 21, 2010, 07:48 local time
- Place: San Diego, CA
- Airport: Lindbergh Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: SWAA
- Location: 32.7153° N, 117.1573° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of San Diego, CA, within about 10 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.7153&lon=-117.1573&mi=10
- Aircraft: N398SW, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N398SW-2020-08-05) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 737-3H4 (registry code 138447K, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-3h4) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: CFM International CFM56 series (registry code 13802, https://openairdocs.org/engine/cfm-international-cfm56-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737-3H4
- Reported engine: CFM INTL. CFM56 SERIES
- People aboard: 45
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 9,369 total, 9,369 in this make and model, 162 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20100121027669I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON 01/21/2010 AT 1548Z/0748 PST, SW216, A B-737-3H4, INCURRED MINOR DAMAGE AFTER STRIKING A RUNWAY/TAXIWAY SIGN WHILE ON LANDING ROLLOUT AT SAN DIEGO INTL AIRPORT (KSAN). WINDS ON KSAN ATIS AT 1523Z, 25 MINUTES PRIOR TO LANDING WERE REPORTED AT 190/22G33KT. WINDS REPORTED ON KSAN ATIS AT 1551Z, 3 MINUTES AFTER SW216 LANDED, WERE REPORTED AT 180/22G29KT. SW216 WAS CLEARED TO LAND ON RWY 09. SAN ATCT REPORTED WINDS AT 160/20 KTS, JUST PRIOR TO SW216 LANDING. THE PILOT OF SW216 REPORTED THAT AS THE AIRCRAFT SLOWED TO 70-80 KT DURING THE LANDING ROLLOUT IT BEGAN TO VEER TO THE RIGHT. THE FO WAS HOLDING FULL RIGHT AILERON. THE PIC APPLIED FULL LEFT RUDDER. THE PLANE CONTINUED TOWARD THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE RWY. THE PILOT SAID HE HAD NO STEERING AUTHORITY AT THAT POINT. THE PLANE EXITED THE RUNWAY ON THE SOUTH SIDE, JUST SHORT OF THE B2 TAXIWAY. THE PILOT REGAINED STEERING AUTHORITY AS THE PLANE SLOWED TO LESS THAN 50 KT., AND HE STOPPED THE PLANE JUST SHORT OF TAXIWAY B AT B2.  THE PILOT SAID HE DID NOT FEEL THE PLANE HIT ANYTHING DURING THE EXCURSION FROM THE RUNWAY. AFTER HE AND THE SIC ASSESSED THE SITUATION, THEY TAXIED THE PLANE TO THE GATE WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT. MINOR DAMAGE WAS LATER FOUND TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE LEFT ENGINE COWLING WHERE IT HAD STRUCK THE B2 TAXIWAY SIGN; AND TO THE LEFT OUTBOARD MAIN TIRE WHERE IT HAD STRUCK A TAXIWAY LIGHT. THERE WERE NO INJURIES TO ANY PASSENGERS OR CREW.

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