Accidents and Incidents

Air Safety Week, March 21, 2005

DATE/SITE: 22 Jan 04 Manchester, UK
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: MD-80 of SAS Flt 539
CIRCUMSTANCES: Erratum: incident (misreported as 22 Jan 05) involved no crew-
reported fire
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Smoke & elec smell
(only) was caused by an overheating ceiling light ballast

DATE/SITE: 02 Mar 2333Z Ft Lauderdale, Fla.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: Cessna 402C Reg: N88TN
CIRCUMSTANCES: Aluminum skin-strips hanging from the a/c's RH elevator after
landing
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Elevator trim-tab
had separated from actuator allowing a violent flutter

DATE/SITE: 02 March Muscat, Oman
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 737-800 of Omanair WY505
CIRCUMSTANCES: Salalah bound flight returned after many pax and all cabin crew
were sick
DEATH & INJURY: Many ill
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: No evidence of
bacterial food poisoning or air contamination found

DATE/SITE: 03 Mar 1905L Los Angeles, Calif.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 767 of Masair Cargo N314LA
CIRCUMSTANCES: After landing discovered paint chips embedded in RHS composite
geardoor
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Prior unreported
ground collision to Masair 6841

DATE/SITE: 03 March Newark, New Jersey
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 777 of Continental Flt 99
CIRCUMSTANCES: Flt 99 to Narita Japan had a nasty tailstrike on take-off (N78008
tail-skin has been worn down to the stringers)
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Hull 008 has
extensive damage and a new rear bulkhead is being built in Japan. Boeing to
repair for US$4.6M

DATE/SITE: 08 Mar evening Calgary, Canada
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: CRJ700 of United
CIRCUMSTANCES: Nose-gear doors and jetway damaged as jetway removed with GPU
attached
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: GPU=ground power
unit

DATE/SITE: 08 Mar 1708L Belize City
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: Caravan C208B of Tropic Air
CIRCUMSTANCES: Flt 2110 crashed into the sea soon after take-off from this
municipal strip
DEATH & INJURY: 7 inj / 12  1
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Appears to be
wind, weather & poss. disorientation (vice engine failure)

DATE/SITE: 08 March Charallave, Venez.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: Citation 1 of Air Global YV-21CP
CIRCUMSTANCES: Crashed and burned after 2nd attempt to land r/way 28 off VOR/DME
appch
DEATH & INJURY: 2 fatal / 2 o/b
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: 800ft cloudbase
(arriving Caracas from Maturi-Quiriquire A/P)

DATE/SITE: 09 March Budapest, Hungary
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 737 of EasyJet
CIRCUMSTANCES: Emergency landing due to an unspecified technical malfunction
DEATH & INJURY: Nil / 105 pax
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: No further details

DATE/SITE: 09 Mar 1110L Atyrau, Kazakhstan
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: AN24 of SKAT
CIRCUMSTANCES: Shut down starboard engine due to oil pressure loss and landed
DEATH & INJURY: Nil / 36 pax  4
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Pax resumed
journey on a ready reserve AN24 within 2 hrs

DATE/SITE: 09 March Aberdeen, UK
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 737 of KLM
CIRCUMSTANCES: Full decontamination response to white powder found in baggage
hold
DEATH & INJURY: Nil /  83 o/b
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: A/c arrived from
Amsterdam had a bag of flour burst in a unclaimed rucksack

DATE/SITE: 09 Mar 0005L San Francisco, Calif.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 747-400 of SIA Flt 001
CIRCUMSTANCES: Blew two left MLG tires on t/off, dumped fuel and returned to SFO
DEATH & INJURY: Nil / 237   21
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Retracting blown
tires and proceeding is never a good idea (gear sticks UP)

DATE/SITE: 09 March Aceh, Indonesia
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: GA8 of MAF
CIRCUMSTANCES: A/c sheared off right wing & gear in landing on road to
distribute supplies
DEATH & INJURY: Nil /  2 o/b
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: MAF: Missionary
Avn Fellowship conducting relief humanitarian ops

DATE/SITE: 09 March Baghdad, Iraq
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: AN-12 of Vega Reg: LZ-VEC
CIRCUMSTANCES: Right wing and one engine hit the dirt on landing and a/c is now
a write-off
DEATH & INJURY: Nil /  7 o/b
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Vega is a
Bulgarian operator

DATE/SITE: 10 Mar 1000L Winnipeg, Canada
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: A319 of Air Canada AC262
CIRCUMSTANCES: All pax complained of burning lungs, eyes, throats so flt
returned 2 hrs later
DEATH & INJURY: Many inj / 61 pax
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: De-icer fluid
contamination of aircon system

DATE/SITE: 11 Mar 1212Z Teterboro, N.J.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: Beechjet 400 Reg N877FL
CIRCUMSTANCES: A/c aborted its take-off and slid off the departure end of the
runway
DEATH & INJURY: Nil / 3  1
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Obviously stopped
before the highway Teterboro is to get improved o'runs

DATE/SITE: 11 March Grozny, Chechnya
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: MI-8 of Russian Border Guard
CIRCUMSTANCES: Interior Ministry helicopter hit power-lines and crashed,
catching fire
DEATH & INJURY: 14 dead / 2 inj / 16
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Russian Ministry
of Defense says 15 a/c & 22 pilots lost in Chechnya since Dec 2001

DATE/SITE: 11 March Brussels, Belgium
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 737 of Lufthansa flt LH4578
CIRCUMSTANCES: 56 Iranian monarchists staged a post-landing sit-in that lasted
16 hours
DEATH & INJURY: Nil / 56 pax
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Ex Frankfurt pax
wanted the nuclear-besotted mullahs removed by the EU

DATE/SITE: 11 Mar 2255L Ezeiza, Brazil
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 777 of AA Flt AAL908
CIRCUMSTANCES: RH eng fire on t/off caused by cracked fuel nozzle supply pipe &
a/c aborted
DEATH & INJURY: 5 inj / 216  14
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: A/c was evacuated
by slides on the runway. Eng cooked (7 mins to extinguish)

DATE/SITE: 11 Mar 0500Z Milwaukee, Wis.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: CRJ-200 of NW Airlink FLG2823
CIRCUMSTANCES: Flight FLG2823 slid sideways off the taxiway whilst maneuvering
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Nil damage

DATE/SITE: 12 Mar 0502Z Milwaukee, Wis.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: CL600-2B19 Reg: N8932C
CIRCUMSTANCES: On landing this Pinnacle Airlines jet veered off the runway
DEATH & INJURY: 1 inj / 8 pax  2
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Substantial damage
(arriving from LaGuardia, N.Y.)

DATE/SITE: 12 Mar 0035Z Blythe, Calif.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: MU-2 Reg: N333WF
CIRCUMSTANCES: Air taxi operator landed gear up causing minor belly damage
DEATH & INJURY: Nil / 3 pax  1
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Assuming an
inadvertent belly landing

DATE/SITE: 12 Mar ~1600L Abuja, Nigeria
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 727 of Chanchangi
CIRCUMSTANCES: 727 allegedly caught out by wind-shear and wiped its gear (a/c is
a write-off)
DEATH & INJURY: 119 uninj / 119
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Namde Azikwe Intl
A/P. 2nd 2005 belly landing for Chanchangi 5N-BEU

DATE/SITE: 13 Mar 0155L LAX, Calif.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 747-400 of Air China
CIRCUMSTANCES: 840,400lb Beijing-bound behemoth sank through taxiway edge and
mired
DEATH & INJURY: Nil /  336 o/b
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Flt 984 cut the
corner enroute to r/way 35R and sank about 3ft. Defuelled

DATE/SITE: 13 March Phoenix, Ariz.
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: CRJ-200ER of United Express
CIRCUMSTANCES: Returned after 20 mins missing a panel and landed runway 26
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: N961SW

DATE/SITE: 14 Mar 1700L Isle-of-Man, UK
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: BAe146-300 of FLYBE
CIRCUMSTANCES: Emerg landing due to smoke on flight-deck. A/P closed for just
over 30mins
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Bandeirante of
Keenair later called a Mayday for eng failure and returned

DATE/SITE: 15 Mar 0715L Lima, Peru
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: AN-26
CIRCUMSTANCES: A/c stuck on belly on runway 33 closing airport's only lengthy
runway
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Suggested that
pilot forgot flaps and stalled during gear retraction on t/off

DATE/SITE: 15 March Ezeiza, Brazil
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: 767-300 of UAL Flt UA846
CIRCUMSTANCES: A/P closed for 4hrs after a/c's left engine caught fire on t/off
& a/c evac'd
DEATH & INJURY: 5 inj / 173  12
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Dulles bound. On
11 Mar 05 a 777 (of AA) had a similar incident at Ezeiza.

DATE/SITE: 15 March Manchester, UK
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: Emb145
CIRCUMSTANCES: Helo flew across the finals flight path of a landing a/c, missing
it by 1/4 mile
DEATH & INJURY: Nil
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Helo pilot ignored
ATC instruction in marginal weather at night. CAA invstg

DATE/SITE: 16 March 1353L Varendei N. Russia
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: AN-24 of Lukoil Op by Kemerovo
CIRCUMSTANCES: RA46489 banked hard during final appch to Varendei & crashed in
flames
DEATH & INJURY: 29 dead / 45  7
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: Flt RL9288. Ufa
(S. Siberia) to Varendei  (several intermediate stops)

DATE/SITE: 16 Mar 0015L Macrihanish, UK
AIRCRAFT  & REGN: BN Islander of LoganAir
CIRCUMSTANCES: Medevac a/c crashed at sea during its approach in conditions of
low cloud
DEATH & INJURY: 2 fatal / 2 o/b
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 Imagery at  www.iasa.com.au/210305.htm: 400ft cloudbase.
Operated for Scottish Ambulance Service (last crash 1995)

1 Air carrier accidents, or other incidents involving serious failures or fatal
injuries. 2 DISCLAIMER: These assessments are not intended to assert probable
cause or liability, but rather are intended to provide insight pending
publication of a final report of investigation. Preliminary analysis by John
Sampson - International Aviation Safety Association (IASA).