KYE4854_CYHZ Runway Overrun

[Fryy/Avocadoflight]

http://avherald.com/h?article=4bff5d1e&opt=0

[Rick]

So several times on final, tower gives them the winds as 260 or 250 @ 15 gusting 21 and double-checks that runway 14 is still ok.  I'm wondering why they didn't choose to switch to runway 23 - it's nearly 3000' longer and removes the gusty tailwind component.  It doesn't seem like 7700' is a lot of runway to land a heavy 747 with a gusty tailwind...

[Fryy/Avocadoflight]

Yeah doesn't sound good. Here's the metar from time of incident.

CYHZ 070912Z 23011G18KT 8SM -RA BR SCT005 BKN012 OVC049 14/14 A2967 RMK SF4SC2SC2 SLP050 DENSITY ALT 800FT=
CYHZ 070900Z 23013KT 7SM -RA BR BKN005 OVC013 14/14 A2967 RMK SF5SC3 SLP050 DENSITY ALT 800FT=