Air France Flight 422
| Air France Flight 422 | |
|---|---|
 An identical Boeing 727-230 from TAME Ecuador |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into terrain |
| place | Cerro del Cable, Colombia
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| date | April 20, 1998 |
| Fatalities | 53 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Boeing 727-230
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| operator |
 TAME for Air France
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| Mark |
HC-BSU
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| Departure airport |
Bogotá airport , Colombia
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| Destination airport |
Quito Airport , Ecuador
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| Passengers | 43 |
| crew | 10 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The Air France Flight 422 was a scheduled flight of Air France , which on 20 April 1998 from Bogotá , Colombia , to Quito , Ecuador led and the last leg of a flight operated, in Paris had begun. The flight was operated by TAME on behalf of Air France. On this flight, shortly after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, a Boeing 727-230 collided with a mountain east of Bogotá in fog and poor visibility. The aircraft belonged to the Ecuadorian airline TAME, but was operated on behalf of Air France for the last leg of its flight from Paris under a wet lease contract.
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The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 727-230, which was 19 years and 4 months old at the time of the accident. The machine was the work of Boeing on the Boeing Field in the state of Washington assembled and completed on January 3, 1979 its first flight before re-January 12, 1979, the Lufthansa was delivered, in which they, the air vehicle registration D-ABKS received. The aircraft had the factory number 21622, it was the 1431. Boeing 727 from ongoing production. From September 9, 1993, the machine belonged to TAME, where it received the new HC-BSU label . The three - engine narrow -body aircraft was equipped with three Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 engines. By the time of the accident, the machine had completed a total of 34,586 operating hours, which accounted for 26,475 take-offs and landings.
Inmates and flight plan
43 passengers had started the flight from Bogotá to Quito. There was also a crew of ten on board. The three-person cockpit crew consisted of a flight captain, a first officer and a flight engineer. The captain had 400 hours of flight experience with the Boeing 727. In addition, there were a mechanic and six flight attendants on board.
Weather
Visibility that day was seven kilometers and there was an interrupted cloud cover of cumulonimbus clouds in the sky at an altitude of 2,000 feet. The temperature was 16 ° C.
the accident
The crew received instructions for a departure on the standard departure route Girardot 1 (GIR1) , which provided for a flight to the right after take-off for noise protection purposes and an onward flight in a south-westerly direction to Quito International Airport. The flight crew did not perform the maneuver properly. The first officer, who acted as pilot flying , did not fly the first turn and forgot to switch on the transponder after take-off, which meant that air traffic control could not support the departure. Less than two minutes after taking off from runway 13L, the aircraft was entering Cerro el Cable Mountain at an altitude of 10,100 feet at an airspeed of 260 knots. All 53 people on board died as a result of the impact and the subsequent fire. The fire also burned 10,000 square meters of forest.
root cause
A loss of situational awareness by the crew was determined to be the cause of the accident. This led to the flight procedures for a GIR 1 departure not being observed. The machine collided with the terrain as a result of the deviation from the prescribed flight course.
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- B-727-200 HC-BSU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 31, 2020.
- Operating history of the machine on planespotters.net
Coordinates: 4 ° 35 ′ 56 " N , 74 ° 4 ′ 51" W.