Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. I’ve said this too many times to count.
Here’s a question: The event below was a maintenance ferry flight. Every time I hear about a post maintenance ferry flight that crashed, I wonder how that maintenance was performed, and what they forgot to do. Maybe they performed maintenance perfectly—I don’t know. It’s just what strikes my mind when that ferry flight goes down. What did that maintenance crew miss? It’s too much like having a brake failure accident while bringing the family car home from the brake shop. But this accident was PRE-inspection. So maybe it is like having the brakes fail on the way to the brake shop…
On January 19, 2014, at 12:20 , a PT. Intan Angkasa Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain, PK-IWT, flying from from Sentani to Tual crashed on approach to Dumatubun Airport, Maluku, Indonesia. The pilot and three passengers were fatally injured and the airplane was destroyed.
Some reports say it was hit by lightning, but most planes are designed not to catch fire when struck by lightning; careful lightning protection has been engineered into the aircraft. The current tends to travel through the conductive aluminum exterior skin and off an extremity like a wing tip. Additional shielding protects components from haywire side effects called “lightning indirect effects” and bursting into flames is not one of those effects, except in the fuel system, where even a spark is lethal.
So, again, I question maintenance, and the integrity of the fuel system. Was the aluminum skin around the fuel system thick enough to withstand a lighting strike?
Or perhaps it was something else entirely. The flight was described as being pounded by rain and fierce winds (they had just refueled in a thunderstorm)…and the wing fell off before the plane crashed. So was it the gale force winds that caused the wing to come off? Inquiring minds want to know. As always, the investigation is key to finding out why the wing came off and the plane crashed.
Those aboard were a pilot, a technician and two airline employees.
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The plane was reportedly holding to taxi for takeoff at the time.
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A small aircraft made a hard landing Tuesday at Riverside Municipal Airport.
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The commander described how he suddenly felt the aircraft becoming unstable and beginning to drift to the left. He decided that the aircraft was no longer in a suitable stable state to land.
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Making like truffle pigs and snuffling out deets.
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After the pilot was able to fix the mechanical issue, the pilot was able to take off from the highway.
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Authorities say the passenger was detained Saturday morning.
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Dolly Fisher, who lives with a life-threatening egg allergy, was treated to a Disney World trip by her parents but now they can’t go because Virgin won’t alter their sandwich fillings
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A girl recorded live the crash of the plane she was onboard into a river in Brazil. The live video shows the ditching of a private Embraer 810C Seneca II aircraft. The plane with registration PR-FDL has crash landed into a river in in Brazil. No one was injured. Both pax were able to emergency…
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3 air traffic controllers suspended; Coast Guard chopper makes emergency landing
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An early morning fire damaged a commercial building complex housing an historic airplane factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Ohio on Sunday, authorities said. Dayton fire crews were sent to the site just before 2:30 a.m. and found heavy fire throughout the complex. Fire …
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by Sarah Craighead Dedmon Andy Patterson of Cutler is reported to have died in a plane crash Saturday, March 25, in Johns Island, South Carolina. Patterson was piloting the small aircraft when it crashed. Initial reports indicated Patterson was traveling with a passenger, but officials later clarified Patterson was alone in the Piper PA-28, according to the Charleston County News. The Machias Valley Municipal Airport, where Patterson served on the airport committee, today posted about Patterson’s death. “Yesterday we lost one of our own,” read the Facebook post.
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The low-cost carrier has four more aircraft due to be delivered later this year.
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CHEEKY Ukraine fans launched dozens of paper planes on to the Wembley pitch and sang a song mocking Vladimir Putin. In the 24th minute of the Euro qualifier against England in London, fans hurled t…
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The coast guard’s ALH Dhruv helicopter crashed after take off from the Kochi airport, reports suggest that two people onboard have been injured in the incident.
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India News: An Air India aircraft flying into Kathmandu averted a collision with a Nepal Airlines flight on March 24, 2023, by ascending sharply. The incident occ
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Ghana is known as one of Africa’s most stable democracies, but recently it’s been beset by economic and security challenges.
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US sanctions Belarus’ election officials, president’s plane
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An ALH Dhruv Mark 3 helicopter of the Indian Coast Guard crashed in Kerala’s Kochi on Sunday while the pilots were examining the chopper.
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The Delta airliner was preparing for takeoff.
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