Copa Airlines Flight 201
| Copa Airlines Flight 201 | |
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 A Copa Airlines Boeing 737 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Loss of control through disorientation after instrument errors |
| place | 13 km southwest of Tucutí |
| date | June 6, 1992 |
| Fatalities | 47 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-204 |
| operator | Copa Airlines |
| Mark | HP-1205CMP |
| Departure airport | Panama Airport |
| Destination airport | Cali airport |
| Passengers | 40 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On June 6, 1992, a Boeing 737-200 crashed on Copa Airlines flight 201 after an instrument failure and the resulting disorientation of the pilots. The Copa Airlines plane crashed near the village of Tucutí in the Panamanian province of Darién . All 47 occupants were killed in the accident.
Flight history
The Boeing 737 took off at 20:36 from runway 21L of the airport Panama City for scheduled flights to Cali ( Colombia ) and was quickly followed by a release at 7,620 meters (25,000 feet ) to rise. At 8:46 p.m., the air traffic controller informed the pilots that the machine was about 30 miles away from a thunderstorm. At about 8:48 p.m., the pilots reported that they had reached the cleared altitude; this was the last radio contact. At about 21:00 that went Boeing 737 into a nose dive over and burst at an altitude of about 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and at a speed of 486 knots (900 km / h) apart. All 47 occupants were killed in this most serious plane crash to date in Panama.
Cause of accident
The machine had crashed at high speed into a difficult-to-access rainforest area, which made the investigation difficult. The voice recorder was destroyed by the force of the impact , but it turned out that the recording tape had already torn 7 days before, i.e. H. a picture of flight 201 was never available. So the investigators only had the flight data recorder . After the evaluation, it became clear that the master's artificial horizon ( Attitude Direction Indicator , ADI) had failed after a left turn due to loose contact. The defective device continued to show a bank slope to the left, although the machine had already completed the curve. The captain did not recognize that the aircraft was in a neutral attitude again and continued to steer the aileron to the right until a bank angle of 100 ° was reached. The machine rolled over the right wing, got into an uncontrollable flight condition and went into a dive, in the course of which the machine broke in the air.
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Web links
- Accident report on Aviation Safety
- Documentation of the accident
- Mysterious Crash of Flight 201 Documentation of the accident in English
Coordinates: 7 ° 53 ′ 35 " N , 77 ° 59 ′ 58" W.