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234 FATAL ACCIDENTS: COMMERCIAL GENERAL AVIATION FLIGHT International, 24 January 1981 Dale Carrier Aircraft Location Total Fatalities occupants Crew Pass Crew Pass Circumstances ? Casa 212 Aviocar (PK-XCE) Advance Airlines King Air (VH-AAV) Jan 23 Feb 21 June 12 Air Wisconsin Swearingen Metro Jul 23 Air Pennsylvania Piper Navajo Mt Cemonyet, Indonesia Mascot Airport, Sydney Valley, Nebraska Philadelphia Airport 3 2 10 13 13 1 3 2 10 13 15 1 ER Crashed into mountain Attempted landing when engine failed after take-off RA Crashed into field on bad weather approach L Lost control and crashed— possible wake vortex victim NON-FATAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS: SCHEDULED FLIGHTS Date Carrier Aircraft Location Injuries Crew Pass Total occupants Creiv Pass Phase Circumstances Jan 10 Jan 13 Jan 23 Jan 27 Jan 30 Jan 30 Feb 7 Mar 16 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 19 Mar 31 Apr 3 Apr 7 Apr 18 Apr 24 May 11 May 13 June 4 British Airways Garuda Lloyd Aereo Boliviano Avianca Aeroflot Nordair ? Ozark Airlines 9 Texas International Lodestar Air Guinea Bangladesh Biman 9 Lineas Aeropostal Venezolana Air Canada Sabena Air UK Egyptair Viscount DC-9-32(PK-GND) Fairchild F.27J (CP-1175) 720 (HK-725) TU-154B FH-227 (C-FNAI) Twin Otter (N97RA) DC-9 (N927L) F.27 (TAM-90) DC-9(N9013) 11-18 (OH-SIR) An-24 (3X-GAU) 707 (S2-ABQ) Grumman Mallard G73 (N260F) BAe 748 (YV-04C) 747 707 (OO-SJH) Herald (G-APWE) 707 (SU-AVX) Inverness, Scotland Banjarmasin, Kalimanta, Indonesia Yacuma Airport, Bolivia Quito, Ecuador Armenia Shingle Point, Yukon College Station, Texas St. Louis, Missouri Santa Cruz, Bolivia Baton Rouge, Louisiana Helsinki Bissau Paya Lebar, Singapore St Croix, Virgin Islands Caracas, Venezuela Over Florida Douala, Cameroon Manston, UK Bangkok 34 4 24 L Starboard main gear jammed up 5 121 L Heavy landing in bad weather 3 15 G Nosewheel jammed in turn, propeller struck ground and aircraft caught fire ? L Overran runway 150 Lightning strike ruptured wing fuel tank ? ? L Skidded off icy runway 2 12 G A main landing gear strut failed during taxi ? ? L Veered off runway during snowstorm 3 36 L Main gear collapse 4 46 L Overran runway 2 - L Right main gear collapse 8 27 L Overran runway 9 65 T/O Lost power after take off and sank back on to runway with gear up 2 11 AA Engine fire 4 24 L Gear-up landing 18 254 ER Severe turbulence 3 L Skidded on landing, main gear collapsed 4 13 L Left main gear failed to lower ? L Skidded off runway in heavy rain. Right wing and landing gear damaged T/O Take-off; C Climb; ER En route; AA Airfield approach; RA Runway approach; L Landing; G On ground Table continued page 239 for the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, last year looks as if it will herald in tense investigation into the design of its main competitor, the Lockheed TriStar. But it is important to note that any lessons learned in the in vestigation of the Saudia TriStar fire at Riyadh (August 19) will probably read across to other widebodies, and to fire-prevention design in general. Though there is still a great deal of work to do in confirming the causes of the Riyadh disaster, information so far suggests that all 301 people on board died from poisonous fumes, possibly emanating from burning hydraulic-fluid. What may never be known is why the captain did not appear to realise the seriousness of the situation until it was too late. The fire which utterly destroyed the TriStar's cabin may afford some les sons in cabin flammability, but seems to have served in this case only to delay discovery of the real cause of fatalities. This accident alone caused a quarter of all the major airline pas senger operation deaths in 1980, demonstrating again the potential a widebody disaster has to distort over all accident statistics. The fire damage to the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 after its heavy land ing at Seoul last November looks re markably similar to that on Saudia's TriStar—the top of the aircraft is destroyed. Given a good start, cabins do burn well, and these two incidents should give much added impetus to the research now in progress at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration into less-flammable cabin furnishing materials. Fortu nately, at Seoul, all but 14 of the occupants escaped before being in capacitated by the noxious fumes given off by burning fuel and furnish ings, page 239 *- >- The Seoul heavy landing accident shows again that it is the cabin which burns best. The No 4 engine and pylon became detached from the wing at touchdown i)fHi 'SfftrV «i m y&K»m -fifes,
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