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6 February 2013

Tunis Air flight TU-712 , Airbus A320 registration TS-IMB from Casablanca , Morocco to Tunis Tunisia with 75 passengers and 8 crew members landed at Tunis airport on runway 19 but veered off the runway to the right and after travelled 250m on soft ground came to a stop with nose gear collapsed on taxiway.Airplane received sustantial damage.Nobody injured

At the time of accident it was heavy rain strong winds at 16knts gusting to 38 with wind direction varying from 220 and 290 degrees

On 12 February the French BEA reported in their weekly bulletin that airplane landed on runway 19 at 13:23 and about 1600 m from the threshold of runway airplane began to veer right , and at 1800 m airplane veered off the runway went 114 m on soft ground , crossed the runway 11/29 and after continued for another 130m on soft ground when entered on taxiway F for 17m that came to a stop with nose gear collapsed.They rated the occurrence as accident

Metars

DTTA 061324Z 25016G38KT 220V290 9999 -RA SQ SCT023 BKN086 17/06 Q1007 NOSIG

TS-IMB

© Monica De Guidi - VRN Spotter Group

First flight:17-08-1990

Age:23.3 years

Tunis airport