Crossing Cable Wirestrike
BEA identify several contributory factors for a power line inspection crew’s failure to identify a crossing cable before a wire strike.
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Hanging on the Telephone… HEMS Wirestrike
A confined HEMS landing site, a backlit but identified low wire, a misdiagnosed routing and mitigating a FOD threat all added to the complexity in this landing.
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Gust Lock Gaff: King Air A90 Runway Excursion
Degraded gust locks, an omission in familiarisation, a non-specific checklist and inadequate pre-flight checks all feature in this survey aircraft runway excursion.
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Hawaiian Air Tour EC130T2 Hard Landing after Power Loss (Part 1)
Continuing airworthiness management: It’s not always better to do more maintenance than the TC Holder recommends. Part 1 of an article that will go on to look at occupant survivability in Part 2.
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Shocking Accident: Two Workers Electrocuted During HESLO
There was an inadequate pre-task briefing, and an undersized team. Operations continued as drizzle started in order to use all the mixed concrete. A device that would have increased separation from the live line was on-site but not used.
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SAR AS365N3 Flying Control Disconnect: BFU Investigation
The BFU investigated how flying controls of a SAR helicopter became disconnected. A nut was reused. Torque was insufficient. Lubrication was applied incorrectly. A cotter pin was likely omitted. The maintenance was also not signed off.
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Too Extreme: Fatal Sky Combat Ace EA300 Aerobatic Accident
An operator’s inadequate oversight of its flights, routine exceedance of Flight Manual limitations and an inadequate regulatory structure for aerobatic ‘experiences’ are highlighted by NTSB.
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NTSB Investigation into AW139 Bahamas Night Take Off Accident
Newly released data in the NTSB public docket suggests that the accident that killed 7, including coal billionaire Chris Cline, was likely due to a Somatogravic Illusion causing spatial disorientation during the night take off.
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Fatal Mi-8 Loss of Control – Inflight and Water Impact off Svalbard
While on a VFR approach below minima to a mine site there was a loss of visual reference and a Loss of Control – Inflight. The helicopter impacted the water but neither aircraft nor occupants were equipped for sea survival. All 8 POB likely drowned or quickly succumb to hypothermia in 2°C water.
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Air Ambulance Forced Landing: Fuel and Switch Errors Plus CRM Breakdown
Insufficient fuel, a switch selection error that resulted in both a loss of electrical power and accelerated fuel burn and a distracting breakdown of pilot/medical personnel communication.
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Pilot Goose(d) Surprised and Crashed
This MD500E helicopter crashed moments after entering a hover when the pilot was surprised by geese.
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Boeing 737-800 Engine Nacelle Strike and Continued Operation
In heavy rain, darkness and with limited visual cues the aircraft briefly drifted just before touch down and a nacelle grazed the runway. ATSB look at why the damage was not detected for several days.
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Inadvertent Entry into IMC During Mountaintop HESLO
Possible self-induced commercial pressure and task fixation may have been factors in a HESLO accident involving a loss of visual reference at a mountain top site on lift 29 of 30, resulting in spatial disorientation and a partial loss of control say AIB Denmark.
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Carb Icing Suspected in Fatal Aerial Photography Flight
NTSB believe a pilot, distracted during low level single pilot photography, missed the potential for carb icing, resulting in a power loss and stall at low altitude.
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US Dash 8-100 Stalled and Dropped 5000 ft Over Alaska
An in-flight loss of control due to flight crew inattention say NTSB, coupled with a failure to recognize and promptly recover from a stall during a scheduled passenger flight over Alaska.
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HESLO AS350B2 Dropped Load – Phase Out of Spring-Loaded Keepers for Keeperless Hooks
A HESLO operator moves to keeperless hooks after a 700 kg load was lost during powerline refurbishment in Scotland.
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NDI Process Failures Preceded B777 PW4077 Engine FBO
Weaknesses in procedures, training and facilities at a P&W Non Destructive Inspection shop struggling with a backlog of novel Thermal Acoustic Imaging inspections of PW4000 fan blades.
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ATR72 Survives Water Impact During Unstabilised Approach
A lucky escape for an ATR72 after the second unstabilised approach of the day into the same airport as the Commander insists on descending below MDA. After the first the crew decided to inhibit the TAWS as they misdiagnosed a failure. The Commander (PM) fought the controls when the Co-Pilot first tried to go around.
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Fatigue Featured in Anchorage Alaska Air Ambulance Accident
After this accident the pilot wisely identified 7 topics for a “pre-flight personal wellness check” to help determine readiness. The NTSB also found the operator’s CRM training omitted fatigue as a topic.
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17 Year Old FOD and a TA-4K Ejection
NTSB say an extra seal, left in a fuel control unit during overhaul 17 years earlier, resulted in an engine flameout in Nevada of a contracted aggressor aircraft.
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Maintenance Issues in Fire-Fighting S-61A Accident
An engine power loss due to contamination in the overhaul shop and wire locking left on a quick release mechanism conspired in this fire-fighting helicopter crash.
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Myanmar National Embraer 190 NLG Jam: Maintenance Error? We’re Not Convinced!
They say What You Look For is What You Find. Did investigators make that mistake?
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CRJ-200 Landing Incident Highlighted US Maintenance Competency Inadequacies
A long delayed NTSB final report points to a series of maintenance standards and competency issues into this incident. Planned rulemaking to solve these was abandoned by FAA after 5 years.
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Visual Illusions, a Non Standard Approach and Cockpit Gradient: Business Jet Accident at Aarhus
“Aarhus Tower, Delta Whiskey Mike, we had a crash landing”: The AIB Denmark report focus on human factors.
B767 Fire and Uncommanded Evacuation After Lockwire Omitted
A maintenance error when the aircraft was put into storage 3 years earlier resulted in a latent defect that caused a fireball. In the absence of communication from the flight crew a premature evacuation was initiated with one pax seriously injured by jet blast from the other, still running, engine.
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