Siberia Airlines crash in Irkutsk

[PeeWee]

what kind of shape was this plane in  ???
 
"safety belt failed" "the emergency slide had not inflated" "went to the emergency exit across the cabin, but a food cart blocked it, and a man trying to force it open appeared to break one of the levers. "

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/12/012.html

Mistakes made in the maint. processes often led to crashes. Something is installed incorreclty, a small part failer causes a domino effect cause related parts failers. The pilots are then faced with decisions, which may be incorrect because of the limited information they have to work with. Those incorrect actions then cause the crash.

This happened with another Airbus, an A330-200 model, on a flight from Toronto to Lisbon. A new engine had been installed but the fuel line had been incorrectly installed. As the jet flew out of Toronto a small leak developed in the line. Nothing on the airplane would tell the pilots that there was a fuel leak and the fuel loss was so small they did not notice it. Airliners have many fuel tanks and as the fuel is consumed pumps automaticly transfer fuel from tank to tank in order to keep the plane balanced for flight.

As the fuel leak continued the auto systems transfered fuel to the problem. The leak grew larger and soon the pilots noticed the higher than normal fuel consumption in the leaking engine. They rans tests but did not discover the leak. Thinking that the new engine was consuming more fuel than normal but not significant enough to warrant concern then manually transfered fuel from one of the larger tanks, one of the tanks that fueled the good engine. The leak grew worse and worse. Evenutally the plane ran out of fuel and they was still no where near Lisbon. Big planes don't glide, they fly as a brick would. Lucky there was a place they call the Azores. There was just enough momentum left in the plane and enough glide slope that they might just reach the Azores. They gave it a try. In the end the plane crashed on the runway on the island. Everyone walked away unharmed.

Peewee

[Adel]

Sibir Faces a Rough Ride After Airplane Crash

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/13/003.html

[PeeWee]

Here is a video of a DC-9 crashing into an Airbus. This occured when the DC-9 hydro systems failed. You will have to view a short commercial first before the video begins.  http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&guideContext=65.73&pmmsid=1676157

Peewee

[Adel]

Pilot Error Blamed for Crash That Killed 113 in Black Sea

The Associated Press
Air safety officials said Wednesday that the crash of an Armenian airline into the Black Sea in May that killed 113 people was due to pilot error.

The pilots of the Armavia A320 allowed the plane to descend too low as it faced bad weather on its approach to the airport outside Sochi, Tatyana Anodina, the head of the Interstate Aviation Committee, said in televised remarks.

Anodina added that an automated system warned the two pilots that the plan was flying dangerously low, but that a last-ditch effort to gain altitude failed to head off the crash into the Black Sea, Itar-Tass reported.

Armavia earlier maintained that the pilots were seasoned and that the plane was in top shape.

The Interstate Aviation Committee, a civil aviation agency that links Russia with 11 other former Soviet republics, particularly blamed the plane's commanding officer for the crash.

Facing bad visibility and driving rain, the commander took the plane off autopilot as it flew 340 meters above the Black Sea, causing the flight crew to lose control of the aircraft, according to agency conclusions reported by RIA-Novosti.

The agency found that the crew's subsequent attempts to raise the plane's altitude were uncoordinated and insufficient, RIA-Novosti said.

 
Everyone on board died in the catastrophe, which came a month before the crash of an S7 Airlines A310 in Irkutsk, in which 125 people died. The plane veered off the runway after landing.

Also Wednesday, Transportation Minister Igor Levitin announced that the families of the 26 Russians who died in the crash outside Sochi would receive payments of about $3,700, on top of $9,300 from regional authorities.

Meanwhile, a military training plane crashed on Wednesday, but both pilots ejected and nobody was seriously injured. The Yak-130 plane crashed during a training flight after taking off from an airfield east of Moscow.