Air crash of a Jetstream 31 of the USAir Express in 1992
| Air crash of a Jetstream 31 of the USAir Express in 1992 | |
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.jpg) A British Aerospace Jetstream 31 of CCAir in the color scheme of the USAir Express, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Crash landing with retracted landing gear |
| place | near Alcoa , Tennessee , United States
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| date | March 12, 1992 |
| Fatalities | 2 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Injured | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 British Aerospace Jetstream 31
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| operator |
CCAir on behalf of USAir Express
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| Mark |
N165PC
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| Departure airport |
Knoxville McGhee Tyson Airport , Tennessee , United States
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| Destination airport |
Knoxville McGhee Tyson Airport , Tennessee , United States
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| Passengers | 0 |
| crew | 2 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
A USAir Express Jetstream 31 crashed on March 12, 1992. On that day, a British Aerospace Jetstream 31 operated by CCAir on behalf of USAir Express was retracted two kilometers from Knoxville McGhee Tyson Airport in Tennessee Landing gear flown off-road . Both pilots, who were the only people on board, were killed in the accident.
machine
The machine was a British Aerospace Jetstream 31 , which had been built in 1985 at the British Aerospace plant in Warton , Lancaster, England and had the serial number 683 . The machine completed its maiden flight on November 19, 1985, on February 8, 1986 it was delivered to the Meridian Trust Company with the aircraft registration number N165PC . The twin-engine short-range aircraft was equipped with two turboprop engines of the type Garrett TPE331-10UG-513 equipped. By the time of the accident, the machine had completed a total of 10,607 operating hours.
crew
On the training flight that was carried out with the machine, there were neither passengers nor flight attendants on board, but only a two-person cockpit crew, consisting of a flight captain and a test captain.
the accident
Before the aircraft started, the flight captain dropped the checklist. Instead of demanding that this be kept and processed, the inspector decided to continue without using the checklist. The pilots successfully took off with the aircraft from McGhee Tyson Airport, but forgot to extend the landing gear during the later approach for the approved touch-and-go maneuver on runway 23R. As a result, the machine touched down with the underside of the fuselage on the runway, with the propellers coming into contact with the ground. The pilots let the machine rise again and declared air distress. While the propeller on engine # 2 was in the sail position, they made a turn to attempt a landing on runway 05L. This eventually led to a loss of control, whereupon the machine crashed.
root cause
The flight captain's inability to use a checklist was found to be the cause of the accident. This resulted in a landing on the underside of the fuselage and with the landing gear retracted. The captain's ability to maintain an adequate airspeed after the incident was also criticized, which led to the uncontrolled collision with the ground.
swell
- Accident report Jetstream 31, N165PC in the Aviation Safety Network
- Accident report of the National Transportation Safety Board , May 26, the 1,993th
- Crash of a BAe Jetstream 31 in Knoxville: 2 killed in the B3A - Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives
- Operating history of the machine on rzjets.net
Coordinates: 35 ° 47'22.3 " N , 83 ° 58'25.7" W.