China Airlines Flight 140
| China Airlines Flight 140 | |
|---|---|
.jpg) A similar Airbus A300 in the livery of China Airlines at the time |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Loss of control due to stall when going around |
| place |
Nagoya Airport , Japan
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| date | April 26, 1994 |
| Fatalities | 264 |
| Survivors | 7th |
| Injured | 7th |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Airbus A300-622R
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| operator |
 China Airlines
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| Mark |
B-1816
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| Departure airport |
Taipei Chiang Kai-shek Airport , Taiwan
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| Destination airport |
Nagoya Airport , Japan
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| Passengers | 256 |
| crew | 15th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On April 26, 1994, an Airbus A300 on China Airlines Flight 140 (flight number: CI140 ) suddenly went over to a height of 500 meters when landing at Nagoya Airport . This resulted in a stall ; the machine fell flat and hit the runway. Of the 271 people on board died 264. The aircraft was on a scheduled flight of China Airlines from Taipei Airport-Chiang Kai-shek . It is the second worst civil aviation accident in Japan after Japan Airlines Flight 123 .
plane
The machine used on the flight was an Airbus A300-622R, which made its maiden flight on October 30, 1990, before being delivered to China Airlines in February 1991. The machine had the serial number 580 and the aircraft registration B-1816 . By the time of the accident, the Airbus had completed 3910 take-offs and landings in 8572 flight hours.
Flight history
The flight had taken off from Taipei-Chiang Kai-shek airport at 16:53 local time and proceeded without incident until the approach to Nagoya. The pilots on board were the captain Wang Lo-chi ( Chinese 王樂琦 , Pinyin Wáng Lèqí ) and the first officer Chuang Meng-jung ( Chinese 莊孟容 , Pinyin Zhuāng Mèngróng ). The machine was piloted by the relatively inexperienced first officer, assisted by Wang Lo-Chi as an experienced captain who had long been a pilot for China Airlines. The pilots made an ILS approach on runway 34 at Nagoya Airport. During approach the first officer activated accidentally mode for go-around , which was irreversible in this type of aircraft at the time. When the first officer noticed that the engine was beginning to rise, the master instructed him to push the control horn forward. The co-pilot worked in vain forcibly against the go-around maneuver initiated by the autopilot, finally the master took over the steering and also tried to push the control horn forward.
The machine's climbing angle increased steadily. At an altitude of 500 meters, the autopilot ultimately steered the machine with a 52.6 ° pitch upwards. At the same time, the airspeed decreased, which led to a stall on the wings . The plane hit the runway and exploded. Of the 271 inmates, 264 died and only 7 survived.
Rescue operation
The rescue operation at the airport began immediately after the crash. However, the rescuers rushed to find only a few survivors, all of whom had sat between rows 7 and 15. A day after the accident, authorities spoke of ten survivors, but three of them had died by May 6. Among the survivors were three children, including two brothers ages 3 and 6.
Cause of accident
The investigations revealed that the accident was caused by poor coordination and the actions of the crew in the cockpit. It turned out that both pilots were too inexperienced - the first officer had only flown small machines until the accident, the captain had a lot of flying experience with older Boeing 747s , but had only switched to the Airbus A300 a few months earlier. Since China Airlines did not have an A300 flight simulator, the captain was trained on a simulator that was configured differently - with this it was possible to deactivate the autopilot by pressing the control horn.
Media reception
The accident was in Mayday - alarm in the cockpit , Episode 158 entitled Mysterious Events ( Deadly Go-Round ) in Episode 9 of Season 18 readjusted.
See also
- China Airlines flight 676 , on which an Airbus A300 also crashed under similar circumstances.
Sources and web links
- Incident report in the Lessons Learned the Federal Aviation Administration
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Accident report A300-600, B-1816 Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 2, 2019.
- ↑ operating history A300-622R, B-1816 planespotters.net, accessed on March 2, 2019
- ↑ Peter Landers: 'It's over, it's over' / Recorder details cockpit panic aboard doomed plane . In: Houston Chronicle , May 1, 1994, p. A30.
Coordinates: 35 ° 14 ′ 43.1 ″ N , 136 ° 55 ′ 56.3 ″ E