Manufacturing Industry
Conversations before SAS crash suggest errors from German aircraft, Linate air traffic control
Airline Industry Information, Dec 20, 2001
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
The conversations between the air traffic control at Milan's Linate airport and the aircraft involved in the 8 October accident that killed 118 people have been released by the Italian prosecutor's office.
The conversations reportedly suggest that there were errors both on the part of the small German aircraft involved in the accident and the Linate air traffic control. The mistakes also caused the destruction of flight SK686, operated by the Scandinavian airline SAS. No one from the SAS aircraft and the German Cessna survived and four luggage handlers were also killed.
The first problem occurred when the Cessna took taxiway R6 instead of R5 as it had been instructed, according to Aftonbladet, a Swedish newspaper. There was a heavy fog at the airport at the time and the visibility was down to 50 metres.
The air traffic control at the airport made a mistake when it did not recognise 'S4', an old designation still visible at the side of R6, which the Cessna reported seeing. This should have indicated that the aircraft was in the wrong place.
Another question is how the experienced pilot of the German Cessna could go the wrong way and why the air traffic controllers' information was not updated so that they knew where S4 was.
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