Aeroméxico Connect flight 2431

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Aeroméxico Connect flight 2431
Aeroméxico Connect E190 XA-GAL approaching KJFK.jpg

The Embraer ERJ-190AR (XA-GAL)
one year before the accident
Accident summary
Accident type Wil be inspected
place Durango, Mexico
24 ° 8 '16.7 "  N , 104 ° 31' 2.5"  W Coordinates: 24 ° 8 '16.7 "  N , 104 ° 31' 2.5"  W.
date July 31, 2018
Fatalities no
Survivors 103
Injured 85
Aircraft
Aircraft type Embraer ERJ-190AR
operator Aeroméxico Connect
Mark XA-GAL
Departure airport General Guadalupe Victoria International Airport
( DGO / MMDO )
Destination airport Mexico City Airport
( MEX / MMMX )
Passengers 99
crew 4 (5)
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Aeroméxico flight 2431 was the flight number of a scheduled flight of Aeroméxico Connect from General Guadalupe Victoria International Airport in Durango to Mexico City , on which the Embraer ERJ-190AR ( aircraft registration number : aircraft) was used on July 31, 2018 at around 3:30 p.m. local time . XA-GAL) crashed shortly after the runway. There were 103 people on board, 99 of them passengers and four crew members. All inmates survived the crash, 85 people were injured, 49 of them admitted to hospitals. Most of the passengers were able to leave the aircraft on their own. The most serious injury suffered one of the pilots who had to undergo emergency surgery on the spine.

The plane was around 10 years old when it crashed, was initially used by two other airlines and has been operated by Aeroméxico since 2014.

the accident

The airport operator Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte SAB de CV (OMA) initially suspected bad weather conditions as the cause of the crash . According to the weather report for the airport, a thunderstorm had started at 3:18 p.m. as a result of which the air temperature had dropped from 28 ° C to 20 ° C within an hour. The Governor of the constituent state of Durango , Jose Aispuro, said that the plane had taken off during a storm and the pilots had possibly tried to abort the start. According to him, the plane took off but lost altitude when it was hit by a gust of wind . The plane suddenly sagged and hit the ground to the left of the runway, starting with the left wing. Both engines were torn off when the plane skidded over the ground, they came to rest to the left of the runway. The plane came to a stop a few hundred meters past the end of the runway. It caught fire and burned out around three to four minutes after it came to a standstill. According to Aispuro, some passengers got out of the plane themselves, some even walked back to the airport to visit relatives. Two people, including the flight captain , were seriously injured. The majority of the injured had already been released from the hospitals on August 1, 2018.

According to observers on the ground, the aircraft came off the runway to the left due to an engine failure.

The flight recorders were recovered in very good condition. The cause of the accident is being investigated by a commission in accordance with the provisions of Annex 13 to the International Aviation Convention of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) . Participating in this through the Mexican Secretariat for Communication and Transport (SCT) are the General Directorate of Mexican Civil Aviation (DGAC) as the representative of the state of the aircraft operator and the site of the accident, the aircraft manufacturer Embraer as well as the US National Authority for Transport Safety (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Authority of the United States (FAA ) as the representative of the state of the engine manufacturer.

According to the investigation report, a pilot who had not yet been fully trained was at the wheel of the accident. He had not yet completed his training for the aircraft type and was piloting a real Embraer 190 for the first time. He lacked important examinations that are necessary for training in the real aircraft. There are many indications that the rest of the crew wanted to use the flight to train the inexperienced pilot. The captain at the other helm did not have the authorizations as an instructor, he acted hesitantly and only took control shortly after the aircraft hit the ground again. There was also a co-pilot in the cockpit and two stewardesses in the cabin. The investigators assume that wind shear was the main cause of the accident and that the unqualified crew contributed to it. A disturbed situational awareness between the pilots meant that the crew overlooked important signs that pointed to the dangerous winds. The crew did not comply with the regulations on communication in critical flight phases.

criticism

Regardless of the outstanding clarification of the question of guilt , the four actual crew members were celebrated as "heroes" in several media immediately after the accident due to the speedy and complete evacuation of the aircraft. The attitude of the SCT was reproduced elsewhere, which also included the possibility of human error in the investigations into the cause of the accident. The Mexican national trade union of air traffic controllers announced on August 3, 2018 that the flight captain had the sole decision to take off. The air traffic controller sent him current weather information. The thunderstorm cell crossed the airport in less than 5 minutes, and the weather change happened suddenly.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AEROMÉXICO INFORMA SOBRE ACCIDENTE AÉREO AM 2431 - 22:00. In: aeromexico.com. July 31, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Accident description Embraer ERJ-190AR XA-GAL. In: AviationSafetyNetwork. August 3, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Accident report Embraer 190 XA-GAL , The Aviation Herald (English), accessed on August 3, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Timo Nowack: Flight AM2431: Aeroméxico plane crashed. In: www.aerotelegraph.com. aeroTELEGRAPH, August 1, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Rescue by emergency slide: All survive the plane crash in Mexico. In: tagesschau.de. ARD-aktuell, August 1, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Martha Casas: ¿Hay fallecidos ?, la primera pregunta del piloto tras despertar de su operación. In: http://www.nacion321.com . Grupo Multimedia Lauman, SAPI de CV, August 2, 2018, accessed November 19, 2018 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ a b Kirk Semple; Paulina Villegas: Aeromexico Plane Crashes, but Officials Say Everyone Survived. In: www.nytimes.com. The New York Times Company, July 31, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018 .
  8. ^ A b Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes: Accidente de la aeronave Embraer 190, matrícula XA-GAL, de Aeroméxico Connect. In: www.gob.mx. August 1, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ Notimex: Recuperan cajas negras del avión accidentado en Durango. In: El Universal. Compañía Periodística Nacional, SA de CV, August 1, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 (Spanish).
  10. ^ Sara Cantera: Aeronáutica Civil inicia investigación sobre accidente de Aeroméxico. In: El Universal. Compañía Periodística Nacional, SA de CV, August 1, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 (Spanish).
  11. ↑ Felix Stoffels: Aeromexico Accident: Untrained copilot flew on Embraer for the first time. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. aeroTELEGRAPH GmbH, March 7, 2019, accessed on March 9, 2019 .
  12. ^ Ellos son los herroes del avión de Aeroméxico que colapsó en Durango. In: El Grafico. August 2, 2018, Retrieved August 5, 2018 (Spanish).
  13. ↑ La heroica tripulación que evitó una tragedia en el desplome del avión de Aeroméxico en el que viajaban 97 pasajeros. In: www.infobae.com. August 2, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2018 (Spanish): "The heroic crew who prevented a tragedy in the crash of the Aeroméxico plane"
  14. ↑ “No hay que colgar medallas a nadie”: Presidente del Colegio de Pilotos Aviadores de México. El Heraldo de México, August 1, 2018, accessed on August 5, 2018 (Spanish): "Nobody has to wear medals"