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EASTERN AIRLINES – LOCKHEED L1011 (N310EA) flight EAL401

EASTERN AIRLINES – LOCKHEED L1011 (N310EA) flight EAL401

Eastern Airlines flight EAL410 operated with a Lockheed 1-1011 crashed at 23:42 eastern standard time, December 29, 1972, 10.7 miles west-northwest of Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida. The aircraft was destroyed. Of the 163 passengers and 13 cremembers aboard, 94 passengers and 5 crewmembers received fatal injuries. Two survivors died later as a result of their injuries.
Following a missed approach because of a suspected nose gear malfunction, the aircraft climbed to 2, 000 feet mean sea level and proceeded on a westerly heading. The three flight crew members and a jumpseat occupant became engrossed in the malfunction.
The National Transportation Safely Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the flightcrew to monitor the flight instruments during the final 4 minutes of flight, and to detect an unexpected descent soon enough to prevent impact with the ground.
Preoccupation with a malfunction of the nose landing gear position indicating system distracted the crew’s attention from the instruments and allowed the descent to go unnoticed.

Precision Air – ATR42-500 (5H-PWF) flight PW494

Precision Air – ATR42-500 (5H-PWF) flight PW494

Precision Air flight PW494 was operated with an ATR42-500 (registration 5H-PWF) from Julius Nyerere International Airport, Dar es Salaam for a scheduled commercial passenger flight to Bukoba on 06-11-2022. Weather at destination Bukoba airport was poor and last part...

GPWS vs EGPWS

GPWS vs EGPWS

Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) and Enhaced Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) are safety systems that are installed on aircraft to provide pilots with visual and auditory warnings of potential ground collisions. GPWS utilizes a combination of altitude, airspeed,...

Summit Air – Dornier DO228-202 (C-FYEV)

Summit Air – Dornier DO228-202 (C-FYEV)

The Summit Air Dornier C-FYEV (a Dornier 228-202 serial number 8133) was a charter flight from Resolute Bay to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, under instrument flight rules. While on final approach to Runway 31 True, the aircraft collided with the ground approximately 1.5...

Kam Air – Boeing B737-200 (EX-037) flight RQ904

Kam Air – Boeing B737-200 (EX-037) flight RQ904

On February 3, 2005. a Boeing 737-242 aircraft with Kyrgyz Republic registration EX·037 . operated by Phoenix Aviation , was conducting Kam Air flight RQ904 from Herat to Kabul. There were a total of 105 occupants on board the Aircraft , including eight crew members...

Thai – Airbus – A310-204 (HS-TIA) flight TG261

Thai – Airbus – A310-204 (HS-TIA) flight TG261

On 11 December 1998 at approximately 17:54 hours Airbus A310-204, belonging to Thai Airways International Public Company Limited, of nationality and registration HS-TIA departed on a passenger scheduled flight TG261 en route on airways TG458 at flight level 310 from...

Air France Airbus A330-203 (F-GZCP) flight AF447

Air France Airbus A330-203 (F-GZCP) flight AF447

On 31 May 2009, the Airbus A330 flight AF 447 took off from Rio de Janeiro Galeão airport bound for Paris Charles de Gaulle. The aeroplane was in contact with the Brazilian ATLANTICO control centre on the INTOL – SALPU – ORARO - TASIL route at FL350. At around 2 h 02,...

SI FLY – ATR42 (F-OHFV) flight KSV 3275

SI FLY – ATR42 (F-OHFV) flight KSV 3275

SI FLY flight KSV3275 , an ATR 42-300 registered F-OHFV crashed on 12 November 1999 at 8 h 11and was operated by the Italian airline Si Fly and chartered by the World Food Program, took off from Rome to undertake Flight KSV 3275 to Pristina with three crew members and...

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