Landing

Flare, touchdown and rollout. Overruns, hard landings, runway excursions and loss of directional control live here.

Landing accidents are frequently survivable but expensive, and they concentrate on runway condition, touchdown point, braking action and crosswind. Runway excursions are the single most common accident type in commercial aviation worldwide.

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