Status:	Final
Date:	21 JUN 1997
Time:	12:22
Type:	McDonnell Douglas MD-11
Operator:	Garuda Indonesia Airways
Registration:	EI-CDK
C/n / msn:	48501/513
First flight:	1992
Crew:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 19
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 289
Total:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 308
Airplane damage:	Substantial
Airplane fate:	Repaired
Location:	Honolulu International Airport, HI (HNL) (United States of America)
Phase:	Landing (LDG)
Nature:	International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK/WIII), Indonesia
Destination airport:	Honolulu International Airport, HI (HNL/PHNL), United States of America
Flightnumber:	800

Narrative:
A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airplane, EI-CDK, operated by Garuda Indonesia as flight GA800, was substantially damaged due to a tail strike during a go-around from an attempted autopilot autoland landing on runway 8L at Honolulu International Airport (HNL), Hawaii. The flight crew completed a touch down and a go-around followed by an uneventful landing at 12:35. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight plan was filed. There were no injuries to the 289 passengers, 4 flight crew and 15 cabin attendants.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's failure to apply adequate manual control inputs following his decision to disconnect the autopilot during the autoland operation, resulting in a subsequent loss of directional control. Also causal and contributing to the tail strike was the pilot's improper decision to initiate a go-around during reverse thrust engine operation."

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Sources:
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