Air Accident / Incident thread

https://avherald.com/h?article=4f73f634&opt=0

Interesting, very close-call here. Unable to gain altitude after going around. Passed over houses at just 300ft. Only 102 passengers on board so could have been significantly more serious if it was a full flight.

TAP Air Portugal Airbus A320-200, registration CS-TNV performing flight TP-754 from Lisbon (Portugal) to Copenhagen (Denmark) with 102 passengers and 7 crew, was landing on Copenhagen's runway 30 at about 12:05L (10:05Z), when according to ADS-B data transmitted by the aircraft the aircraft veered to the left, the speed over ground reduced sharply from about 133 to about 120 knots, the crew initiated a go around, the aircraft however did not climb but also did not build up speed. With the airport perimeter and houses of the Maglebylille community in the way the aircraft began to slowly climb and crossed the first houses at around 300 feet AGL, the speed over ground further reduced to 101 knots. Once the aircraft had climbed to about 900 feet AGL (1700 feet MSL according to standard pressure 1013 hPa, deduct 800 feet from all transponder altitude readings to get to AGL according to QNH 986 hPa) airspeed began to build up again. The aircraft levelled off at 3000 feet MSL and thereafter accelerated to normal speeds. The aircraft subsequently positioned for another approach to runway 22L and landed without further incident about 20 minutes after the go around.

Very sad case in this month's monthly bulletin from the AAIB UK.

Extract from report:

At 0958 hrs on 10 September 2021, without permission from the operator or clearance from the air traffic radio operator, a student pilot took off from Rochester Airport in G-CFIO. The aircraft was later observed to enter a steep descent to the left before it struck the ground in a field adjacent to Tar Pot Lane near Ruckinge in Kent. The pilot did not survive the accident. Immediately prior to taking off, the pilot had reported over the aircraft radio that he had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and indicated that he intended to deliberately crash the aircraft. The pilot had not declared his diagnosis to the doctor who issued his aviation medical certificate.

FAA determined it was intentional and revoked his licence. Shame that's all that happened. He can even reapply in a year.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/26/youtuber-deliberately-crashed-plane-for-views-faa

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Eurocopter involved in maintenance on a French lighthouse had a close call. Just about recovered in time and activated the emergency floatation devices.

Cessna Citation 551 flying from Jerez Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport crashed in the Baltic. ATC contact was lost over France and it appears to have continued on autopilot until it apparently ran out of fuel and spiralled into the Baltic. 4 on board, family of 3 and pilot. Military jets from Germany, Denmark and Sweden also tried to make contact, but apparently didn't see any movement inside. There's reports that a problem with pressurisation was reported shortly after takeoff. Looks like they didn't properly address that, with tragic consequences.

This may be worth watching tomorrow evening. Just hope they don't go down the oft-favoured missile theory route.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/news/families-of-those-lost-in-1968-tuskar-rock-air-tragedy-off-wexford-coast-speak-out-in-rte-1-documentary-42045661.html

The fate of this Viscount (much later than the Aer Lingus crash) has echoes of the Irish accident.

http://www.vickersviscount.net/Index/VickersViscount353History.aspx

Nothing new in the programme (which is available to watch on RTE Player) and its focus was mostly on the personal stories of families affected. That was the most impactful aspect, I thought, and not sensationalist. The search and wreckage recovery was not well handled, according to the programme. They included a couple of amateur "experts" who remain convinced that an unmanned Jindivik drone was responsible, but they had no real evidence to support this.

Fundamentally, an air crash investigation in an era of no CVRs or data recorders, and with only limited recovery of the wreckage from deep water, was never likely to enable any definitive conclusions to be reached and to that extent the families will always have unanswered questions. The fact that so few bodies (14 (?) out of 61) were recovered also understandably frustrates people, especially since the wreckage was believed to contain more but it could not be recovered successfully.

You should have watched to the end, then!

I agree. There was no point other than to get people to emote on TV. It's not even an anniversary.

Aer Lingus had other fatal crashes in the 1960s but they don't get discussed on TV.

I was thinking of one in Wales as well but that was the 1950s.

1952 so I was way off

F35 vertical landing goes weirdly wrong. Pilot eventually ejects, though maybe he didn't need to in the end. But he should at least get a Martin Baker tie out of it.

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet: https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/1224/1343617-new-york-dublin-aer-lingus-engine/

An engine failure during the opening stages of flight is a pretty big deal.

Unfortunately they are indeed stuck out there for Christmas.

EI might just about have gotten a plane back in before the DUB closure on 25th if they'd dispatched it first thing this morning, but at this point it's not going to be a runner until the 26th.

Dublin Airport apparently offered to facilitate a recovery flight landing on Christmas morning.

From the ATC Audio the crew say they had both engines running normally and they had received no abnormal warnings when queried as they were being vectored for the ILS so not an engine failure per se. Read elsewhere ground engineer's found nothing untoward when they checked it after landing but would imagine it requires a drop and boroscope before being allowed back on wing.

Very unfortunate timing for all involved.

Nepal: ATR72 crashed shortly after take-off.