Mc Donnell Douglas DC10 Emergency after Smoke detection
Mc Donnell Douglas DC10 Emergency after Smoke detection After Smoke Detected in Cargo Compartment Crew Lands DC-10, Then Fire Destroys Aircraft… Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas Microburst On Final Caused Accident
The approach controller did not warn the crew of the possibility of wind shear, but the official Portuguese accident report noted that such an experienced crew should have been aware that wind shear was a possibility…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas RTO With Runway Overrun
The accident raised crew-training issues and renewed concern about rejected takeoffs when runways are wet or contaminated by slush or snow, the official Canadian accident report said…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC10 Runway Overrun While Being Landed in a Storm
The flight crew encountered showers, turbulence and a strong, gusting crosswind on final approach. The airplane touched down about midpoint on the wet runway, overran the runway, struck localizer antennas and came to a stop with the forward section of the fuselage in a lagoon…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC10 Smoke and Emergency Landing
Although there were only minor injuries in the evacuation, the evacuation was delayed by the flight crew’s failure to depressurize the aircraft. Investigators were unable to determine the fire’s ignition source but found evidence of undeclared hazardous cargo…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC8 Freighter to Pitch Up Uncontrollably
Absence of the bolt caused the right elevator control tab to become disconnected. The control tab then jammed as the flight crew began a night takeoff. During the crew’s attempt to return to the airport, the aircraft struck the ground and was destroyed. All the crewmembers were killed…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC8 Misloaded, stalls and hits the Ground-Misloaded,_stalls_and_hits_the_Ground.pdf
The cargo was not loaded aboard the airplane according to the airline’s instructions. As a result, the flight crew inadvertently used a horizontal-stabilizer-trim setting that was not correct for the airplane’s aft center of gravity…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC8 Premature Three Engine Lift Off Caused Impact Into Terrain
Although the flight was legal under the regulations governing it, the accident flight crew would not have met the legal crew-rest requirements for a revenue flight, the official U.S. report said…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC8 Stall then Collision with Terrain
Contributing factors included the pilots’ unfamiliarity with an actual DC-8 stall, the test flight at night without a visual horizon and an engine-compressor stall that might have distracted the flight crew at a critical time…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC9 Landing Into Windshear Caused Impact Into Terrain
The approach was continued into severe convective activity and the crew failed to recognize a wind-shear situation in a timely manner. The failure of the air traffic controller to report radar data and other pertinent weather information to the crew was a contributing factor to the accident, the official U.S. report said…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC9 No Landing Check List Contributes To The Wheels up Landing
The captain ignored several cues that the unstabilized approach should have been aborted. These included excessive airspeed, an alert from the ground-proximity warning system, lack of green lights signaling that the landing gear was down and locked, and the sounding of the gear-warning horn…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC9 Oxygen bottles caught fire in flight
The cockpit crew had no means to extinguish or suppress the fire because the cargo compartment was not equipped (nor was it required to be equipped) with a fire extinguisher, the official report said…. Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas DC9 Wheels Up Landing
Flight Crew’s Failure to Perform Landing Checklist Results in DC-9 Wheels-up Landing… Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas MD 88 Uncontained Engine Failure
This report explains the accident involving an MD-88, which experienced an uncontained engine failure during the initial part of its takeoff roll at Pensacola Regional Airport in Pensacola, Florida (USA) on July 6, 1996. Safety issues in the report include the limitations of the blue etch anodize process, manufacturing defects, standards for the fluorescent penetrant…… Continue Reading →
Mc Donnell Douglas MD10 Hard Landing Results in Destruction of Freighter
Inadequate crosswind-landing technique by the pilot flying and inadequate monitoring by the pilot not flying were cited in the collapse of the Boeing MD-10’s right main landing gear on touchdown… Continue Reading →