Air Algérie accident near Paris
| Air Algérie accident near Paris | |
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 An identical aircraft from Air Algérie |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Airplane collision in the air |
| place | 13 km southeast of Paris-Orly Airport , France
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| date | May 19, 1960 |
| Fatalities | 2 |
| Injured | 31 |
| 1. Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle |
| operator | Air Algérie (IACO: DAAG) |
| Mark | F-OBNI |
| Departure airport |
Algiers Airport , Algeria
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| Destination airport |
Paris-Orly Airport (IACO: LFPO), France
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| Passengers | 32 |
| crew | 7th |
| Survivors | 38 |
| 2. Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Stampe & Vertongen SV-4 |
| operator | University Aeronautical Club |
| Mark | F-BDEV |
| Departure airport |
Chelles-Le Pin Airfield (IACO: LFPH), France
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| Destination airport |
Saint-Cyr-l'École Airport (IACO: LFPZ), France
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| Passengers | 0 |
| crew | 1 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
In the Air Algérie accident near Paris on May 19, 1960, a Sud Aviation Caravelle of Air Algérie on an international scheduled flight from Algiers to Paris and a Stampe & Vertongen SV-4 collided , killing 2 people and seriously damaging the Caravelle.
crew
The crew of the Caravelle consisted of the 39-year-old captain , the 28-year-old first officer , the 36-year-old flight engineer and four flight attendants .
prehistory
The Stampe was involved in an incident in Angers on August 22, 1959 and was then overtaken. The Soviet head of state and government Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev was about to leave after the Paris summit conference , which made flight planning difficult.
course
The Caravelle took off from Algiers and apart from a partial failure of the autopilot during cruise , there were no other incidents. During the approach in the direction of Paris, the pilots of the Caravelle were given clearance to fly a holding pattern , sink under visual flight rules and then land on runway 20 at Paris-Orly airport. The Caravelle flew around an overflight sign (marker) while descending . The Caravelle then had to fly another curve for alignment before the final approach . When at an altitude of 3600 ft (1100 m ), with the air brakes deployed , the rate of descent from 1500 ft / min (460 m / min) to 1000 / m (305 m / min) and the speed to 260 kn (480 km / h) ) was reduced to extend the landing flaps , the Caravelle passed the marker after breaking through the cloud cover and was on a course of 290/300 °. The captain tried to see a Convair flying to his left onto runway 20L and to watch out for his runway in order to fly the final turn for alignment.
The first officer saw a ramp flying nearby to the right in front of him and, although he pushed his control horn forward, it came 13 kilometers from Paris-Orly airport at 10:46 local time (9:46 a.m. UTC ) at an altitude of 1000 m to the collision. The ram was torn from the collision and most of the debris fell to the ground. The roof of the Caravelle was torn open and the engine of the Stampe penetrated the cabin and got stuck there. Furthermore was tail damaged and both engines the Caravelle, with 5100 min -1 ran, fell by the sucked debris, including a wheel of Stampe from. The force of the collision also triggered the braking parachute, which was automatically disconnected. The flight engineer managed to restart both engines; the left engine reached 8000 and the right 5000 min −1 . The Caravelle remained airworthy and landed at 10:50 a.m. local time without further incident at Paris-Orly Airport.
In the accident, the pilot and only occupant of the Stampe and a passenger of the Caravelle died. Another 11 were hospitalized and 20 received first aid.
root cause
It was found that the two aircraft were approaching each other at a speed of 150 m / s and collided at an angle of 13 °.
The following accident factors were determined:
- Scattered clouds may make mutual recognition more difficult
- The sun was a hindrance for the pilot of the Stampe in the event that he was looking in the direction of the Caravelle
- The field of vision of the pilots of both aircraft was restricted by blind spots
- The Caravelle was in a critical phase of flight in which the captain had to watch out for his own runway as well as a Convair flying nearby
- Due to the dark green, matt gray color of the stem, there was no brightness contrast to the ground, which, together with the small size of the stem, meant that it could not be recognized even from a short distance
additional
As a result of the accident, a discussion arose as to whether the regulations for visual flight are appropriate at speeds that jet aircraft can reach, at which the pilots cannot be sure whether they can avoid an impending collision through visual detection alone.
After the accident, the Caravelle was converted to the Caravelle III , received the registration number 7T-VAI and was destroyed on September 23, 1973 in a landing accident in which there were no fatalities at Algiers airport.
swell
- Aircraft Accident data and report Caravelle 3 F OBNI the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Accident report Stampe SV-4 F-BDEV , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase , accessed on December 4, 2017.
- Photos of the damaged Caravelle on airkalo.com
- Aircraft accident data and report Caravelle 3 7T-VAI in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ICAO accident report in Aircraft Accident Digest 12
- Daily News newspaper article
- BEA accident report
Individual evidence