What: Mato Grosso Transport Secretariat Twin Engine
Where: Chapada dos Guimaraes,
When: Nov 2, 2012
Who: 4 fatalities
Why: Two engineers supervising paving works in Confresa lost control of the plane on approach to the airport.
What: Single engine Inpaer Excel
Where: Taquarinhas beach, Camboriu
When: Nov 3, 2012
Who: Two adults, 1 child, 2 fatalities
Why: The flight went down in the ocean near Taquarinhas beach. The pilot and another adult aboard were killed. An eleven year old boy who was aboard survived the crash and has been hospitalized. The flight had taken off from Porto Belo, Santa Catarina. The aircraft sank around 10 a.m.
Fishermen rescued the eleven year old, tossing him a floatation device. He was hospitalized at City Hospital Ruth Cardoso.
The remains of pilot Julius Mandelli and his adult passenger were retrieved by rescue crews on jet skis and ski boats.
Azul Linhas Aereas flight had to return and make an emergency landing at Viracopos International Airport, São Paulo, Brazil, on May 4th.
The Embraer ERJ-195, flying to Brasilia, Brazil, had to return after a vulture hit the captain’s windshield.
The aircraft received substantial damage.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers after 1:45 hour delay.
Here’s a case that did not rush to court.
Six passengers of the October 2011 crash listed below have filed suit against Northern Thunderbird Air. The pilot and co-pilot, Luc Fortin and Matt Robic died shortly after the crash. Seven passengers were rescued six of whom are listed in the suit. Prior to takeoff, passengers informed the crew they saw oil under the wing. After takeoff, the pilot told the passengers he would be returning because oil was pouring from the wing.
The helicopter hit a lamp post, a car and smashed up on the road. An additional part of the suit is that the plane lacked an electrical cutoff switch to reduce fire threat.
NTSB Report:
On October 27, 2011, about 1600 pacific daylight time, a Beechcraft King Air 100, C-GXRX, operated by Northern Thunderbird Air, Inc. collided with terrain while attempting to land at the Vancouver International Airport, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight rules flight plan was in effect. The airplane sustained substantial damage, and a postcrash fire ensued. The pilot was killed. The copilot, seven passengers, and two people on the ground were seriously injured. The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Canadian government.
Friday, October 31 2008
It has been 12 years since 99 people died in the Tam Congonhas Fokker-100 accident.
On October 31 1996. TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 set off for Rio De Janeiro and fell to earth minutes after take-off from Congonhas airport, spreading destruction on two building and seven houses, killing 99 people: 90 passengers, six members of the crew and three people on the street.
Inquiries of TAM and Fokker, (the company who manufactured the airplane) concluded that a malfunctioning relay caused he opening of the right reverser. In December 1997, the Aeronautics Report found TAM guilty and made Fokker responsible for imperfections in the airplane.
According to the Center of Inquiry and Prevention of Air Accidents (Cenipa) Report, during take-off, the reverser of the right engine of the Fokker-100 opened, and without any alarm, was set in motion, catching by surprise a crew in the command cabin that never was trained for this situation.
The report disclosed that on 28 of June 1995, the Fokker sent a letter claiming it was not necessary to train pilots for this type of emergency because it was impossible for the Fokker reverser to open during take-off.
The report says that a system changed altered the probability of imperfection in the system to one in ten million from one in a million.
One another factor helped to knock down the airplane: the contacts of a relay (controlling of electric circuits) that should have set in motion the alarm system. This relay, according to Douglas colonel Axe, head of the Cenipa, was found 13 days after the accident.
The human error that was the consequence of these other two situations: the lack of information on pane, caused by the burnt relay, and the lack of training for the situation by the manufacturer of the aircraft. According to report, the pilots had not followed basic recommendations.
According to colonel Axe, the pilots could have gained time if they had allowed the airplane to go up to stabilize, without “forcing the engine in pane because of the reverse.”
The Cenipa said that the only acknowledgment that the pilots had of the opening of the reverser was the brusque jib of the manual acceleration of the aircraft, then later when the airplane left the soil, the landing gear.
A computer animation showed how the pilots acted in a desperate attempt to discover what was occurring.
The tragedy timeline:
8h26m: The control tower authorizes the airplane to take off.
29 seconds: The airplane runs about 90 kilometers per minute in the track.
55 seconds: The airplane raises in flight. The reverse of right turbine opens and closes for the first time, without the pilot perceiving it.
70 seconds: The reverser opens for the third time and it does not close.
74 seconds: The Fokker stick starts to tremble and the airplane loses height.
79 seconds: The Fokker inclines to the right, the wing striking a three story building . The airplane blows up. Ninety and nine people die.
8h27m.
Postado for Jorge Tadeu Da Silva
Apologies for any errors in translation
Sao Paulo International Airport’s main runway will remain closed for two months while construction crews rebuild the tarmac to improve safety. 13 million reais ($6.4 million) will be spent to repave the runway, Infraero announced on its Web site. The repaved runway will have grooves to prevent water from accumulating on the tarmac.
