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    Tam Crash on Take-off Pilot Error


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    Contact photographer Normando Carvalho Jr.

    What: Tam Fokker 100 en route from Sao Paulo to Rio
    Where: residential area 1 mile from Sao Paulo
    When: October 31 1996
    Who: 89 passengers,6 crew and 2 on the ground died.
    Why: Summary: On October 31 1996, about 0545 UTC a Fokker 100, registration PT-MRK, operating as TAM Airlines flight. 402, a shuttle between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, crashed shortly after takeoff from the Congonhas Airport, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The aircraft was destroyed; 89 passengers,6 crew and 2 on the ground died. 3 passengers were Americans .Witnesses reported the aircraft failed to gain altitude after take-off, collided with a tall building and crashed into residential area 1 mile from the end of the departure runway. Pilot error, unfamiliarity with the craft was judged to be partially responsible.

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    Millon Air Cargo Crash


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    Contact photographer Gerard Helmer

    What: Million Air Boeing 707-323C en route from Manta Ecuador to Miami
    Where: Dolorosa
    When: October 22, 1996,
    Who: pilot-in-command, first officer, flight engineer, 1 passenger and 30 on the ground died in the crash. 50 were injured.
    Why: On October 22, 1996, a Millon Air Boeing 707-323C cargo flight carrying frozen fish and flowers crashed after takeoff from the Eloy Alfaro Airport, Manta, Ecuador. The aircraft ripped off rooftops of houses in the Dolorosa neighborhood and crashed in flames into a restaurant. Local officials claim an engine was on fire. The airplane was destroyed. The airline transport pilot-in-command, first officer, flight engineer, 1 passenger, and about 30 persons on the ground were fatally injured. About 50 persons on the ground sustained serious injuries.

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    AeroPeru Crashes in Pacific


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    What: Aeroperú Boeing 757-23A en route from Lima, Peru to Santiago Chile.
    Where: 73 km (45.6 mls) NW off Lima, Peru in the Pacific Ocean
    When: October 2, 1996
    Who: 9 crew members, 61 passengers died
    Why: On October 2, 1996, Aeroperú Boeing 757 en route from Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru (LIM), to Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, crashed on October 2, 1996. Shortly after takeoff the crew discovered that their instrumentation was behaving erratically. They were receiving contradictory serial emergency messages from the onboard computer, such as rudder ratio, mach speed trim, overspeed, underspeed and flying too low. The crew declared an emergency and requested an immediate return to the airport. they experienced multiple stalls resulting in rapid loss of altitude with no corresponding altimeter changes. While the altimeter indicated an altitude of approximately 9,700 feet, but the aircraft’s true altitude was much closer to the water.

    The air traffic controller sent a Boeing 707 to help guide the 757 to land, but before the 707 reached them, the 757’s wingtip struck the water approximately twenty-five minutes after emergency declaration. The pilots realized the true altitude of the airliner, struggled and was briefly airborne again for twenty seconds, but then crashed inverted into the water. All nine crew members and sixty-one passengers died.

    In Peru, Eleuterio Chacaliaza was sentenced to negligent homicide for a piece of masking tape accidentally left over the static ports (on the bottom side of the fuselage) after cleaning the aircraft.
    Those aboard:
    1.- José Luis Bovadilla Fernández (México)
    2.- Jaime Brito Guzmán (Chile)
    3.- Abraham Broidman (México)
    4.- Mario Cayetano Bramont (Perú)
    5.- Eugenio Campos (México)
    6.- María Carrasco Flórez Aráoz (Chile)
    7.- Guillermo Serveto (Gran Bretaña)
    8.- Manuel Chang Ching (Perú)
    9.- Fabio Chaparro Beltrán (Colombia)
    10.- Víctor Choe Gallardo (Perú)
    11.- Javier Cuéllar Cantú (Perú)
    12.- Barbara Delano (Chile)
    13.- James Degeren (Chile)
    14.- Miguel Degeren (Chile)
    15.- Juan Huerdo (México)
    16.- Galen Canusev (Estados Unidos)
    17.- Nis Linden (Estados Unidos).
    18.- Dani Manzur (Chile)
    19.- Patricio Marambio (Chile)
    20.- Luis Morán Morante (Perú)
    21.- Raúl Peña Rojas (Chile)
    22.- Guillermo Quiroz (Perú)
    23.- Juan Alvarado Allende (Chile), deportado a su país por poseer documentación falsa bajo el nombre de Gerardo Sánchez, de Venezuela
    24.- Eduardo Smith Inope (Perú)
    25.- Denis Trial (Estados Unidos)
    26.- Kelen Vaisman (Estados Unidos)
    27.- Janet Vallejos Robinson (Perú)
    28.- Luis Vergara Bernales (Perú)
    29.- Pedro Villena Hidalgo (Perú)
    30.- Genaro Mar (México). Personas que se embarcaron en Quito:
    1.- Renato Cisotto (Italia)
    2.- Hernán Barriga Guzmán (Chile)
    3.- Isidro Huarache (Perú)
    4.- Juan Hurache (Perú)
    5.- Mario Jiménez Borja (Ecuador)
    6.- Arístides Noboa (Ecuador)
    7.- Mark Bram (Gran Bretaña)
    8.- Lan Lock (Nueva Zelandia)
    9.- Rodrigo Fernández Ruiz (España)
    10.- Tiziana Tamaro (Italia).
    Personas en tránsito de Miami a Santiago (todos chilenos)
    1.- Juan Awad
    2.- Mario Awad
    3.- Carolina Acevedo
    4.- Carmen Arancibia
    5.- Daniel Boleli
    6.- Sara Díaz
    7.- Jaime Duque del Río
    8.- Emir Agana
    9.- Ricardo Alex
    10.- Martín Sadued
    11.- María Eterpuer
    12.- Luis Medina
    13.- Eduardo Román
    14.- Elena Saavedra
    15.- María Saavedra
    16.- Carlos Serán
    17.- Alfonso Uldurraga
    18.- Carmen Concha
    19.- Ana Concha
    20.- Jimena Paya
    21.- Martha Contreras.
    Tripulación:
    1.- Capitán Erick Shereiber, piloto.
    2.- David Fernández, copiloto.
    3.- María Angela Casabo
    4.- Carolina López
    5.- Roxana Mino
    6.- Ana Contreras
    7.- Gema Brussone
    8.- Silvia Barreto
    9.- Nancy Fernández.

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    TWA Flight 800


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    Contact photographer Frank C. Duarte Jr.

    What: TWA Boeing 747-131 en route from NY to Paris
    Where: East Moriches, New York
    When: July 17, 1996
    Who: 2 pilots, 2 flight engineers, 14 flight attendants, and 212 passengers
    Why: On July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines, Inc. Boeing 747-131, N93119, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, en route from New York to Paris, France. The flight departed JFK about 2019, with 2 pilots, 2 flight engineers, 14 flight attendants, and 212 passengers on board. All were killed, and the airplane was destroyed. Investigation revealed that the crash occurred as the result of a fuel/air explosion in the airplane’s center wing fuel tank .Ignition energy for the CWT explosion most likely entered the CWT through the fuel quantity indication system wiring short circuit. There was no evidence of a missile or bomb.

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    Faucett Crash in Peru


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    What: Faucett Boeing 737-222 en route from Lima to Arequipa Peru
    Where: Mountainous terrain 2.5 miles west of runway 9
    When: February 29, 1996
    Who: 117 passengers, 2 flight crew, 4 cabin crew
    Why: Faucett flight 251, Boeing 737-222 crashed about 2015 eastern standard time on VOR?DME approach to runway 9 at Rodriguez Ballon Airport, Arequipa Peru. The flight was en route from Lima International and had 117 passengers, 2 flught crew, 4 cabin crew, all fatally injured. The flight crew made no indication to problems to ATC and impactd near the top of a ridge 2.5 miles west of runway 9 The main fuselage carried over the initial ridge and impacted ner the top of the second ridge 1/3 mile east. The empennage fell to an arroyo in between. Factors that contributed to the crash were poor night time visibility, darkness and the heavy fog.

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    Birgenair: Historical Fatality


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    Contact Photographer Gerhard Plomitzer

    What: Birgenair Boeing 757-200 en route from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic to Frankfurt Germany
    Where: Puerto Plata
    When: February 6th 1996
    Who: 176 passengers 13 crew
    Why: The plane had been parked for a month in Puerto Plata. After takeoff, disagreeing airspeeds resulted in simultaneous stall and overspeed warnings that precipitated a crash that killed 176 passengers and 13 crew fifteen minutes after takeoff.

    A black and yellow mud dauber wasp was found lodged in the tube.

    George’s Point of View

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    ALOHA AIRLINES Flight 243

    Aloha Airlines
    Photographer: Juerg Schmid

    NTSB Identification: DCA88MA054.
    The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 35379.
    Scheduled 14 CFR ALOHA AIRLINES, INC.
    Accident occurred Thursday, April 28, 1988 in MAUI, HI
    Probable Cause Approval Date: 06/25/1990
    Aircraft: BOEING 737-297, registration: N73711
    Injuries: 1 Fatal,7 Serious,57 Minor,30 Uninjured.
    NTSB investigators traveled in support of this investigation and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
    The Safety Board’s full report on this investigation is provided as Aviation Accident Report number AAR-89/03. To obtain a copy of this report, or to view the executive summary online, please see the Web site at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm

    FLT 243 EXPERIENCED AN EXPLOSIVE DECOMPRESSION AND STRUCTURAL FAILURE AT FL240 WHILE ENROUTE FROM HILO, HI, TO HONOLULU, HI. APRX 18 FT OF CABIN SKIN AND STRUCTURE AFT OF THE CABIN ENTRANCE DOOR AND ABOVE THE PASSENGER FLOORLINE SEPARATED FROM THE ACFT. ONE FLT ATTENDANT WHO WAS STANDING IN THE AISLE WAS SWEPT OVERBOARD. THE FLT DIVERTED TO MAUI AND A LANDING WAS ACCOMPLISHED. EXAMINATION OF THE ACFT REVEALED DISBONDING AND FATIGUE DAMAGE WHICH LED TO THE FAILURE OF THE LAP JOINT AT S-10L AND THE SEPARATION OF THE FUSELAGE UPPER SKIN BETWEEN STATIONS 360 AND 540. (SEE NTSB/AAR-89/03)

    The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:

    FUSELAGE,ATTACHMENT..FATIGUE

    The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:

    FUSELAGE,ATTACHMENT..SEPARATION

    Contributing Factors

    MAINTENANCE,INSPECTION..IMPROPER..COMPANY MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL

    Contributing Factors

    SUPERVISION..INADEQUATE..COMPANY/OPERATOR MANAGEMENT

    Contributing Factors

    INADEQUATE SURVEILLANCE OF OPERATION..FAA(ORGANIZATION)

    Contributing Factors

    ACFT/EQUIP,INADEQUATE AIRFRAME..MANUFACTURER

    Pdf of official report http://bit.ly/16kpbVy

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    Aeroflot Flight 528

    Aeroflot Flight 528 was a Yakovlev 40 that crashed on June 19, 1987 while flying from Odessa to Berdyansk with five crew and twenty-four passengers. In the crash, 2 crew died and 6 passengers. The aircraft approached with a tailwind. in heavy rain. A go-around was aborted. The plane overran the runway, struck obstacles and caught fire. Among the multiple causes of the crash was the decision to land at Berdyansk in bad weather and poor visibility. Poor human resource management at the control tower and lack of data from the weather station were contributing factors

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    Air New England Flight 248

    Air New England Flight 248, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, crashed near Camp Greenough, a Boy Scout camp in Massachusetts. The flight was on approach to Barnstable Municipal Airport. There were ten passengers and two crew members aboard. Only the pilot died. After impacting the ground, one of the passengers, 19-year-old Suzanne Mourad went for help. In 2009, another passenger, Robert Sabbag, wrote a book entitled Down Around Midnight about the crash.

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    Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z

    Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z

    On June 15, 1972, over Pleiku, South Vietnam, a bomb inside a cosmetics case placed under a seat exploded. The plane crashed in a wooded area. All 71 passengers and 10 crew aboard the Convair CV-880-22M-21 were killed. A police officer, Somchai Chaiyasut, whose fiancée and seven year old daughter were aboard was charged with the premeditated murder of everyone aboard because Chaiyasut had taken out three travel insurance policies on his fiancée and daughter. He was declared not guilty due to lack of evidence. He sued the insurance companies and received 5.5 million but died of cancer in 1985.

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    JAL471

    Japan Airlines flight 471
    On June 14, 1972, the DC-8 struck the banks of River Yamuna. JAL flight 471 from Tokyo to London (Tokyo-Hong Kong-Bangkok-New Delhi-Teheran-Cairo-Rome-Frankfurt-London) took-off from Bangkok. After receiving clearance for ILS approach to New Delhi Palam Airport, the aircraft crashed into the banks of Yamuna River. 86 passengers and crew onboard perished, and 3 were serious injured.

    The first officer was flying the approach to Delhi. Japanese investigators claimed a false glide path signal was responsible for the descent into terrain. Indian investigators say the accident was caused by a disregard of procedures by the crew and abandoning all instrument indications without properly ensuring sighting of the runway. The accident was classified as (CFIT) Controlled Flight Into Terrain.

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    Havørn Accident

    On June 16th, 1936, a Norwegian Air Lines flight en route from Bergen to Tromsø crashed into Lihesten mountain in Hyllestad, Norway. The pilots did not realize they were flying 15 to 20 kilometers east of their intended route. The crew of four and three passengers were all killed in the first fatal aviation accident in Norway. The first expedition found four bodies. The second expedition recovered the remaining bodies. The plane was a Junkers Ju 52, registration LN-DAE purchased from Deutsche Lufthansa. The captain was Ditlev Pentz Smith. First Officer was Erik Storm. Peter Ruth Paasche was reserve pilot. Radio operator was Per Erling Hegle. Thepassengers were Inspector Sven Svensen Løgit, Consul Wilhelm Andreas Mejdell Dall and journalist Harald Wigum of Bergens Tidende.

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