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.COMMERCIAL FLIGHT SAFETY^ Fatal accidents causes Aircrew error Weather Engine failure/fire Hit high ground Structural failure Shootdown Note: Some accidents come into assessed at this stage are principal event, and may be subject to several events are completely more than No. of accidents 31 21 5 11 1 2 3 2 one category. apparent causes or majo revision followir unknown so far g full inquiry. The No. of fatalities 711 636 158 265 1 276 7 295 causes as factors in the The causes of Fatal accidents 1988 Scheduled passenger services Non-scheduled .passenger services Regional/commuter services Non-passenger services Fatal occurrences involving sabotage, hijack, or military action against civil targets Total jets (including sabotage etc.) Total jets (excluding sabotage etc.) Total prop-driven (inc. sabotage etc.) Total prop-driven (exc. sabotage etc.) Total accidents excluding sabotage etc. Total accidents all categories No. of accidents 15 4 16 19 7 26 20 35 34 54 61 No. of fatalities 633 84 218 72 578 1,137 576 448 431 1,007 1,585 TO Take-off; C Climb; ER En route; AA Airfield approach; RA Runway approach; L Landing; G On ground FATAL OCCURRENCES INVOLVING SABOTAGE, HIJACK, OR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST CIVILIAN TARGETS Date Aircraft Location Fatalities Crew Pass Total Occupants Crew Pass Phase Circumstances Mar 1- Comair Mar 8 Aeroflot Apr 5 Kuwait Airways July 3 Iranair . Sep 29 VASP Dec« T&G Aviation Dec 21 Pan Am Bandeirante (ZS-LGP) Tu-154 747-200 Combt (9K-ADA) A300 (EP-IBU) 737 DC-7 Wadeviile, South Africa ? (domestic) ER Bangkok- Kuwait Straits of Hormuz En route Belo 1 Horizonte-Goiania 15 3 2 15 ER ER 98 ER 747-121 (N739PA) Lockerbie, Scotland Suspected suicide by passenger who used explosives. Aircraft broke up in mid-air. Armed hijackers demanded to be flown to London. Aircraft landed in Soviet territory and was stormed. Hijackers with arms boarded at Bangkok and forced diversion to Mashhad. More hijackers and arms believed to have got on board there. After two days aircraft left for Beirut but was forced to divert to Larnaca. Hijackers murdered two passengers at Larnaca. Aircraft flew to Algiers where hijackers released passengers in return for own freedom on April 20. USS Vincennes, in conflict with Iranian gunboats, mistook the IranAir daily scheduled flight (Bandar Abbas-Dubai) for a hostile aircraft and shot it down. Hijacker burst into flightdeck and shot copilot. He also wounded three other crew members. Hijacker later shot dead by police on ground as he attempted to escape from aircraft. En route Dakar-Agadir in airway, chartered by US Agency for International Development to spray locusts in Senegal. Brought down by ground-to-air missile. Another DC-7 accompanying the downed aircraft was severely damaged. Aircraft disintegerated soon after reaching cruising level at FL310. British investigators report evidence of explosives on wreckage and hold baggage. Some 15 people in the town of Lockerbie died as a result of falling wreckage. FATAL ACCIDENTS: SCHEDULED PASSENGER FLIGHTS Date Jan 18 Jan 18 Jan 24 Feb 27 Mar 17 Aptjl 29 June 12 Aug 2 Aug 31 Aug 31 Sep 9 Sep 15 Oct 17 Oct 19 Oct 25 Carrier CAAC Aeroflot Aeroflot Aeroflot Avianca Aloha Austral Lineas Aereas Balkan Bulgarian Delta CAAC Hang Khong Vietnam Ethiopian Uganda Airlines Indian Airlines Aero Peru Aircraft 11-18 (B-222) Tu-154 Yak 40 (CCCP-87549) Tu-134 727 (HK-1716) 737 (N737U) MD-81 (N1003G) Yak 40 (LZ-DOK) 727 (N473DA) Trident 2 (B-2218) Tu-134 (VN-A102) 737 (ET-AJA) 707 (5X-UBC) 737-200 . (VT-EAH) F.28 (OB-R-1020) Location Chongqing, China Krasnovodsk, USSR Nizhnevartovsk, USSR Surgut, USSR Cucuta,' Colombia Maui, Hawaii Posadas Apt, Argentina Sofia Apt, Bulgaria Dallas, USA Hong Kong Bangkok Bahir Dar, Ethiopia Rome Fumicino Ahmedabad, India Juliaca, Peru Fatalities Crew 10 — 4 7 1 7 6 6 1 Pass 98 11 23 > 132 — 15 25 13 1 75 31 32 124 11 Total Occupants Crew 10 4 7 5 7 4 6 6 6 7 6 Pass 98 104 27 51 132 79 15 33 97 83 84 105 42 129 69 Phase Circumstances AA Multiple engine failure followed by pilot reporting loss of control. L Missed runway, landed on soft ground. Unqualified second pilot had been given the landing in difficult weather. C Aircraft destroyed. L Crashed short of the runway but within airfield perimeter. Aircraft broke up and burned. Number of fatalities not confirmed. C Hit high ground in haze and mist. ER Explosive decompression. Large part of forward fuselage (upper cabin) separated. Aircraft diverted to land at Maui. RA Crashed three miles out on approach in poor visibility. Hit trees. TO Crashed on take-off within airport perimeter. Pilot error has been blamed. TO Aircraft stalled and crashed almost immediately after take-off. Evidence suggests that flaps were either not deployed or partially deployed, either through non-selection or failure. L Descended below glidepath on approach to runway 31 in a heavy rain shower. Starboard outer flap hit an approach light mounted in harbour. Gear hit ramp leading up to runway and broke. Aircraft skidded off runway, with front section of fuselage submerging. RA Crashed five miles out on finals for Don Muang International Airport. Reportedly hit by lightning, but main factors were a heavy thunderstorm and strong winds. C Engine failure following birdstrike. L Aircraft crashed in fog on its third approach to the airport, having clipped buildings with its wings on approach to runway 34L. RA Hit electric mast on approach in poor visibility. Crashed five miles short of runway. C Reportedly crashed in high nose-up attitude soon after take-off. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 21 January 1989 51
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