Aviation Accidents and Incidents

Sunday, April 14, 2013

News: Lion Air B737-800 overruns runway at Ngurah Rai International Airport,Bali Indonesia

Lion Air Flight 904 (JT 904, LNI 904) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight on the aircraft PK-LKS, a Boeing 737-8GP operated by Lion Air between Bandung and Denpasar, Indonesia. On 13 April, 2013, at about 3:00pm (07:00 GMT), the aircraft ditched into a shallow coastal sea, some 0.6 nautical miles (1.1 km) short of the seawall protecting the threshold of Runway 9, while attempting to land at Denpasar. The aircraft’s fuselage broke up in two parts.There were 101 passengers and 7 crew members on board the aircraft. A total of 22 people were injured in the accident,however there were no fatalities.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

News: Russian Plane crashes in Ukraine carrying Champions league fans

On February 13th, 2013, a Ukrainian South Airlines Antonov An-24 plane commencing chartered flight YG 8971 crash-landed in Donetsk, Ukraine leading to five confirmed casualties.

Accident

After an Ukrainian internal flight from Odessa to Donetsk the plane overshot the runway as it attempted an emergency landing at Donetsk International Airport.As of 13 February 2013 five passengers were confirmed dead, while the fate of one passenger remains unclear.After touchdown the aircraft had burst into flames, however most occupants were evacuated because they were able to escape from the burning aircraft through a hole in the fuselage left by the crash. Eyewitnesses have stated that the aircraft was attempting to land in dense fog and touched down on soft ground between main runway and taxiway, other observers reported the aircraft touched down short of the runway on soft ground.According to flight documentation on board were 36 passengers and 7 crew members; but there where also several unregistered passengers making the total of people on board 52.All 44 passengers were football fans on their way to the match-up of Shakhtar Donetsk and Borussia Dortmund.This match opened with a minute of silence in memory of the deceased.The aircraft was built in 1973.

Investigation

Donetsk Region Prosecutor's Officer Volodymyr Vyshynsky is in charge of the inquiry which was opened the day after the crash.On 14 February 2013 investigators considered pilot error, faulty ground support equipment and poor weather conditions as possible causes.The plane's pilot blamed bad weather for the accident; while the plane's operator, South Airlines, stated that the plane was in good condition and the pilot should not have landed in the fog and should have diverted to another airport. One passenger mentioned "engine failure during landing".In the years before this crash, former Soviet republics (like Ukraine) had seen a series of deadly crashes that has tarnished the region's air safety record.Experts blamed them on poor maintenance of aging planes, weak government controls, insufficient pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality among carriers.

An An-24 In Better Days

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Trivia: Movie Flight 2012 similarities with Alaska 261(leave comments with your opinion)

I just saw the movie Flight with Denzel Whashigton a few days ago and i was baffled as to which real crash it could have taken its story from.It hit me suddenly and unexpectedly that i have seen a documentary from the famous Air Crash Investigation series(episode 6 season 1 "Cutting Corners" ) that had STRIKING similarities with the movie.The real crash was that of Alaska Airlines 261 back in january 2000.The crash of alaska had the jackscrew problem and as well two deep dives because of this problem with the second one being the final fatal dive.The last striking similarity that everyone will notice (if he has seen the movie and the documentary) is the last effort of the pilots to fly the plane inverted in order to reduce or stop the dive.This of course had little effect in real life but suprisingly saved almost everyone in the movie!Anyways great movie that i suggest anyone to see it if he had not done so already and also i would be glad to read your comments about this interesting trivial story.

VERY CHILLING REAL TOWER AUDIO TAPE!!LISTEN AT 2:26 ANOTHER PILOT SAYS "PLANE IS INVERTED" ANOTHER ONE AT 2:45