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This is the story of dana air flight 363, on the 20th of february 2018 a dana air md 83 was making the flight from Abuja to port harcourt international airport. The plane had 44 passengers 2 pilots and 3 flight attendants. This would the the second flight of the day for the pilots of flight 363. The plane took off and everything was normal and by 8:20 pm lagos area control had cleared the pilots down to 22000 feet and soon after that they were cleared down to 8000 feet. As they descended the captain briefed for a landing on runway 21 at the airport. The weather was a concern for them. They had a bit of cumulonimbus clouds in their way down to runway 21 and approach control wanted to know how theyd handle the clouds in their flight path. The captain basically kicked the can down the road and told approach control that he would like to get closer to the runway and then make a decision, which isnt a bad idea at all. But approach control had bad news for the pilots of flight 363 the intensity of the rain at the airport had picked up meaning that it was now way hardred to get this MD 83 on the ground. The weather was deteriorating and the rain was now a full blown thunderstorm. At 6:45 pm the jet was cleared for the LOC approach to runway 21. At this point the captain noticed that the DME 2 was not working. DME or distance measuring equipment is exactly what it sounds like, the plane uses beacons on the ground to calculate where the plane is in relation to the beacon and passes that information onto the pilots. So to rectify this the pilots switched the beacon over to nav 1 and the LOC track came on. All was saved. They were still 12 miles from the runway and so they still had some time to go before the plane touched down. Now all they had to do was contact the tower and get this plane on the ground, but they could not raise the tower on the radio. As it turned out the captain had made a mistake when punching in the frequency for the tower and thats why they werent getting through. But 1 minute and a half later the pilots were in contact with the tower. The first officer was now peering through the clouds to try and get a visual on the runway and the captain swicthed the wipers to full blast to try and get through the thick clouds that surrounded the airport. The the captain got sight of the runway he said “runway in sight landing” and he took the jet down. Just 32 seconds after that happened they got the sink rate warning which meant that the plane was losing altitude way too fast. But as the jet got lower and lower the runway came into view more prominently and despite the wind which was at 22 knots by the way the plane touched down smoothly. But then the pilots got the shock of their lives when they had run out of runway. As the end of the runway loomed through the fog the captain slammed on the brakes hoping that the jet would stop in time. He also extended the spoilers and the reversers, but that too was not enough. Despite maximum braking the plane was slowing down too slowly they needed more braking power but there was no way to get it, the plane was at its limits. But before the runway could run out the plane veered off to the left and then started going through the wet mud that surrounded the runway. Even with the wet mud slowing the plane down the jet went on for another 978 feet and then it came to a stop. When all was done and dusted none of the 49 people onboard suffered any form of injuries. They all walked away. The plane and the runway lights were the only thing damaged in this case.
As soon as they got to know that everyone was okay the investigation started. They needed to figure out how this plane landed to know that they needed to know where the plane landed on the runway. So they went over to the touchdown zone on the runway to take some measurements of the tyre markings. But to their surprise they found no tyre markings where they expected them. They then drove down the runway hunting for the tyre markings, they