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AIRLINE ACCIDENTS

Carrier

Aircraft Location

Fatalities

Occupants

Circumstonces

Feb.2,

Labrador

Cessna

1991

Airways

208

March

Gulf Air

A320

10, 1997

Goose Bay

1

1

In En

route phase; crashed into a

bog

Labrador

take-off aborted

at near Vl speed

Abu Ohabi

8

Crew,

107

aircraft veered off runway, struck

embarkmenl, sever

damage to air

Airport,

1 (Crew)

pax

craft:

nosagear thrust up into

UAE

cockpit. captain badly injured

3

3

En Route phase. aircraft 10sl.

hit

trees during attempted forced

landing in a field

4

4

Feb.

1,

1997

Air

Sene-

ga'

Tambacoun-

3 crew, 20

BAe 748-

da Airport,

21

Tambacoun-

pox

da, Senegal

Carajas Air-

1

(crew)

8737-200

port,

Cara-

jas, Brazil

take-off, climb

to '000 ft after

take-off, sudden veer to left and

loss of altitude, collision with

ground beside

runway. Cause: left

engine failure

landing phase: violent storms, vis

ibility very poor;hard

landing

by

aircraft veered right, stopped

trees, main landing gear collapsed

[1

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Oral practice: explain the events and the surrounding

circumstances

as they

ore suggested

in the notes

above.

Use

the post and the post continuous

noteworthy events

or cir-

you

need to mention

tenses, and the past perfect

if

cumstances which occurred prior to the main event.

Oral practice: imagine that

you have been

given one or more of the above

What additional infor-

can you ask?

. What questions

accidents to investigate

pilot heed the warning

mation do you need?

For instance, Why didnlt the

issued by... ? What

caused the aircraft

to veer...?

Written practice:

write a complete report for ot least one

of the above

acci-

may

details.

If you have done [2] above, you

dents. Imagine any additional

include the questions

in your report.

If you ore working

in

0 group, imagine that you

are

on 0

panel reporting to

television

broadcast

the NTSB, for

instance, or perhaps participating

in

0

.

Each participant

should prepare one complete,

devoted to air traffic mishaps

but succinct, report.

-Averted

Disaster?

ANarrowly

unusual (for

the

pilot!) flight

on a

The following

is a true

incident of a rather

Prior to take off the weight distribution was calcu-

tated and

the results were as

follows:

dry operating weight

165

tons

payload

35 tons

110 tons

fuel

Everything seemed nonnal

until the aircraft

was

ready for

take-off. The

pilot

noticed that

accelera·

tion was

slower than

what

he

expected

it to be.

Indeed, liftoff required

more effort from

the

pilot

than would otherwise have been

needed.

En route climb was very poor, a fact which many

passengers later reported that they had nOliced, but

.

had dismissed

as being inconsequential

Cruise at 35,OClO

feet needed

a boost in engine

power in order to maintain a lower than nannat air-

speed.

However, descent

and landing

were nonnal and

.

went smoothly

What could have accounted for

these anomalies?

-r

,

Now indicate

what would have been the

case for each

of the following:

acceleration

lift off

climb

engine power iD crutse

'l

~

fuel

baggage

weather factors

mistake In

calculations