Air accident at Milan Linate

Air accident at Milan Linate
Reconstruction of the course of the accident
Accident summary
Accident type	Collision on the ground
place	Milan Linate Airport
date	October 8, 2001
Fatalities	118
Injured	4th
1. Aircraft
Aircraft type	McDonnell Douglas MD-87
operator	SAS Scandinavian Airlines
Mark	SE-DMA
Surname	Location Viking
Departure airport	Milan Linate Airport
Destination airport	Copenhagen Kastrup Airport
Passengers	104
crew	6th
Survivors	0
2. Aircraft
Aircraft type	Cessna CitationJet CJ2
operator	Air Evex
Mark	D-IEVX
Departure airport	Milan Linate Airport
Destination airport	Le Bourget Airport
Passengers	2
crew	2
Survivors	0
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In the air accident at Milan-Linate on October 8, 2001, a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 of SAS Scandinavian Airlines (flight number SK686) collided with a Cessna CitationJet CJ2 of Air Evex at Milan-Linate airport . All 114 people on board the two aircraft and four others on the ground were killed in the accident. There were also four injured. It was the worst aviation accident in Italy to date.

the accident

On the day of the accident, thick fog lay over the city airport of Milan , the visibility was less than 200 meters.

The master of the Cessna CitationJet was instructed to taxi from the western apron via the northern taxiway (R5) in the direction of the northern apron, from where the main taxiway could have been reached without crossing the runway . Instead, however, he controlled the machine via the southern runway R6, which crosses the runway.

At the same time, at 8:09:28 a.m., the SAS MD-87 was given take-off clearance for runway 36R and collided with the Cessna 35 seconds later at a speed of around 270 km / h.

In the impact, one of the occupants of the Cessna was killed instantly and the other three were burned. The Swedish captain of the MD-87 tried to take off the machine. However, since the right engine was lost on impact and the left engine lost thrust due to the sucking in of debris, the aircraft only reached a height of about 12 m and fell back to the ground. The master then tried to stop the engine, which had lost the right main landing gear , by reversing the thrust and braking . Nevertheless, the MD-87 crashed into a hangar at the end of the runway at about 250 km / h . During this and in the subsequent fire, all occupants of the machine and four Italian ground workers died. Four other hangar workers were injured.

causes

In addition to the mistakes made by the pilots of the Cessna, the Italian Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority (ANSV) also identified a number of other causes of the accident.

• At the time of the accident, the airport did not have a functioning ground penetrating radar , although its installation had already started a few years earlier. The system went into operation a few months later.
• The guidance boards along the taxiways did not meet the official guidelines. After the Cessna had mistakenly reached tarmac R6, the pilots could no longer recognize this error.
• When the pilots of the Cessna correctly stopped at a stop marker and reported their location (S4) to the ground control, they did not react because the marker was not shown on their maps.
• Neither of the two pilots of the Cessna was certified for landings with a visibility less than 550 m, but they landed only a few minutes before the accident under correspondingly poor visibility conditions.

On April 16, 2004, the Milan court found four people guilty:

• Airport director Vincenzo Fusco and air traffic controller Paolo Zacchetti were each sentenced to eight years in prison.
• The former supervisor of the air traffic controller, Sandro Gualano, and Francesco Federico, former airport manager, were each sentenced to 6½ years.

In the appeal proceedings on 7 July 2006, the two airport chiefs were acquitted, and sentenced four other people.

Victim

origin	SAS 686		Cessna		ground	Total
	Passengers	crew	Passengers	crew
Italy	58	-	2	-	4th	64
Sweden	17th	3	-	-	-	20th
Denmark	16	3	-	-	-	19th
Finland	6th	-	-	-	-	6th
Norway	3	-	-	-	-	3
Germany	-	-	-	2	-	2
United Kingdom	2	-	-	-	-	2
Romania	1	-	-	-	-	1
South Africa	1	-	-	-	-	1
Total	104	6th	2	2	4th	118

A total of 118 people from nine different countries of origin were killed in the accident, with more than half of the victims being Italians . A British passenger on the SAS plane also had US citizenship .

Memorial services were held for the victims in Denmark , Norway , Sweden and Italy on October 12 and 13 . In March 2002, a forest with 118 beech trees and a sculpture by the Swedish artist Christer Bording was opened in Forlanini Park near the airport in memory of the deceased .

The two Milan football clubs AC and Inter ( Derby della Madonnina ) carried out the charity game "For the victims of Linate" on September 1st, 2002. The proceeds went to the families of the victims.

Representation in the media

In the Canadian television series Mayday - Alarm im Cockpit , the accident was recreated in season 11, episode 12 "The Invisible Plane" (German title: Crash in the fog ).

Web links

Commons : Air accident at Milan Linate  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Final report of the Italian authority ANSV (PDF; 715 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eleven on trial over Milan collision. BBC , June 4, 2003, accessed July 19, 2013 . 
2. ^ Accident report DC-9-87 SE-DMA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 1, 2017.
3. ↑ Milano Linate, ground collision between Boeing MD-87, registration SE-DMA and Cessna 525-A, registration D-IEVX. ANSV , January 20, 2004, accessed on July 19, 2013 . 
4. ^ Final Report. (PDF; 715 kB) (No longer available online.) ANSV, January 20, 2004, archived from the original on May 14, 2011 ; accessed on July 19, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Motivi della decisione. (doc; 553 kB) April 16, 2004, accessed on July 19, 2013 (Italian). 
6. ^ Passenger and Crew List Scandinavian Airlines Flight SK 686. (PDF; 79 kB) SAS, October 8, 2001, accessed on July 19, 2013 (English). 
7. ↑ SK686 Update: Nationality Distribution. (PDF; 40 kB) SAS, October 10, 2001, accessed on July 19, 2013 (English). 
8. ^ British plane crash victims named. BBC, October 10, 2001, accessed July 13, 2013 . 
9. ^ Memorial Service for the Causalities in Milan. (PDF; 57 kB) SAS, October 11, 2001, accessed on July 19, 2013 (English). 
10. ↑ inter.it: Inter and Milan: Derby Memorial Match for Linate's Victims article from November 12, 2001 (English)
11. ↑ magliarossonera.it: Milan vs. International 1: 0 (Italian)

Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 42.4 "  N , 9 ° 16 ′ 36.3"  E