Incident: Georgian B763 at Xian on May 28th 2025, approached wrong runway

A Georgian Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration 4L-GMC performing flight GH-1180 (dep May 27th) from Tbilisi (Georgia) to Xian (China), was cleared to land on Xian's runway 23L at about 05:30L (21:30Z May 27th), but aligned with the runway under construction immediately to the left, which is under construction and is to become runway 24L. Tower instructed the aircraft to go around, the crew aborted the approach, repositioned for another approach and landed without further incident.

The aircraft remained on the ground for about 15 hours before returning to Tbilisi.

China's Authorities have opened an investigation.

The airport reported a foreign aircraft approached the wrong runway and was instructed to go around. The runway, still under construction, is just undergoing preparation for becoming active, it had just been powered and lit up for debugging purposes.

Metars:
ZLXY 280100Z 06005MPS CAVOK 23/12 Q1014 NOSIG=
ZLXY 280000Z 05004MPS CAVOK 21/11 Q1014 NOSIG=
ZLXY 272300Z 05003MPS CAVOK 19/12 Q1013 NOSIG=
ZLXY 272200Z 05001MPS CAVOK 14/11 Q1013 NOSIG=
ZLXY 272100Z VRB01MPS CAVOK 15/11 Q1013 NOSIG=
ZLXY 272000Z 02002MPS CAVOK 15/11 Q1013 NOSIG=
ZLXY 271900Z VRB01MPS CAVOK 15/12 Q1013 NOSIG=
ZLXY 271800Z VRB01MPS CAVOK 15/12 Q1014 NOSIG=

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