The NTSB and the FAA have opened investigations into an incident involving an AMERICAN AIRLINES MD82 at Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday, December 12. The incident was just disclosed yesterday. On December 12, AA Flight 1402 was on Domestic Service from Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas, to Charlotte, with 110 passengers and 5 crew members onboard. The MD82 was performing an instrument landing at Charlotte in poor visibility at 10:48pm, when the aircraft's right wing received "substantial" damage, according to the FAA preliminary incident report. Media reports say that on touchdown, the left main gear left the runway getting into soft ground. As the Pilots corrected the swerve and got the airplane back on the runway, the right wingtip hit the ground. American Airlines is not commenting on the incident, other than to say that the " damage was not caused by an attempted auto-land" and that there were no reported injuries to the passengers and crew. Air traffic control tapes reveal that the tower controllers had asked the Pilots if they would be performing a go-around as the aircraft approached the runway end, an indication that aircraft might have appeared to controllers to be on an unstabilized approach. The Pilots however responded, "No, we're on the ground. The FAA is also investigating why it took American 4 hours to report the incident to the agency.
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