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| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1751324 |
| Time | |
| Date | 202007 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Landing Without Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
On a visual approach; ATC instructed us to contact tower at the FAF. After touching down; I realized that I didn't contact tower. I quickly swapped to tower and received tower's instructions to taxi to the ramp with him.Threats1. Long duty day (12+ hours)2. Time of the day (X:xx a.m.)3. No other aircraft on frequency; which is unusual. Usually; you are hearing all the other aircraft swapping frequencies. However; this was late at night during covid-19 times with less traffic.4. Previous maintenance issues; flight attendant issues; return to gate event; and aircraft swap; which delayed flight three hours. We could have discussed that we needed to be extra vigilant on arrival and approach due to the long duty day; time of day; and previous maintenance issues. Another possibility is that since no one else was on approach or tower frequency; the tower could have reached out to approach to contact us.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier First Officer reported landing without a clearance; citing fatigue and scarcity of other aircraft operating due to COVID-19 reductions as contributing.
Narrative: On a visual approach; ATC instructed us to contact Tower at the FAF. After touching down; I realized that I didn't contact Tower. I quickly swapped to Tower and received Tower's instructions to taxi to the ramp with him.Threats1. Long duty day (12+ hours)2. Time of the day (X:XX a.m.)3. No other aircraft on frequency; which is unusual. Usually; you are hearing all the other aircraft swapping frequencies. However; this was late at night during COVID-19 times with less traffic.4. Previous Maintenance issues; Flight Attendant issues; return to gate event; and aircraft swap; which delayed flight three hours. We could have discussed that we needed to be extra vigilant on arrival and approach due to the long duty day; time of day; and previous Maintenance issues. Another possibility is that since no one else was on Approach or Tower frequency; the Tower could have reached out to Approach to contact us.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.