Fokker 100

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Fokker 100
A KLM Cityhopper Fokker 100
Type: twin-engine regional airliner
Design country:

NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands

Manufacturer:

Fokker

First flight:

November 30, 1986

Commissioning:

1988

Production time:

1986-1997

Number of pieces:

283

cockpit

The Fokker 100 is a twin- engine passenger aircraft from the Fokker Flugzeugwerke with a capacity of 100 passengers. The Fokker 100 is usually abbreviated to F100 ( ICAO code) or 100 ( IATA code) in flight plans .

history

The engine of a Fokker 100 viewed from the passenger cabin

The Fokker 100 was launched in late 1986. The first flight took place on November 30, 1986, the machine had the aircraft registration PH-MKH. It was a further development of the Fokker F28 Fellowship, from which it differed through a stretched fuselage, more modern Rolls-Royce-Tay engines , newer systems (such as electronic flight instruments, EFIS ) and aerodynamic improvements. A shortened version of the Fokker 100 was brought onto the market in 1993 with the Fokker 70 .

With the Fokker F28 Fellowship, Fokker had built a modern regional jet and improved it with the Fokker 100. First-time customer Swissair put the first Fokker 100 into operation in February 1988. American Airlines, the largest customer, operated 75 units. But with the bankruptcy of the Fokker company in 1996, this model disappeared from the market for new aircraft. The aircraft type had already been pushed into a niche by the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A319 . However, the Fokker 100 remained popular in the market for used aircraft, as US Airways , for example, shut down a large part of its Fokker 100 fleet and these were therefore cheaply available. The Austrian Airlines Group took over some aircraft from the American Airlines fleet, Germania used the Fokker 100 in wet lease from 2003 to 2008 for Air Berlin, among others .

Stork Aerospace , which under the name "Fokker Services" has taken care of the many still flying Fokker aircraft, continues to offer the Fokker 100 as an Executive Jet . The prototype 001 PH-MKH was used by Stork Fokker as a test vehicle for the SOSTAR-X radar development program until autumn 2007 and was then scrapped because further uses could not be acquired. It followed the already scrapped prototype 002, the fuselage of which was shortened as a prototype for the Fokker F70.

F-90 / F-130

After a loan of almost 20 million euros was granted by the Netherlands to the company Rekkof Aircraft NV at the end of 2010, the company wanted to modernize the Fokker 100 based on the original prototype as F100NG or F120NG in one with winglets, new avionics and new engines Bring shape to market. The first flight of the prototype NG F120 was planned for 2015. The commissioning of the first series aircraft was targeted for 2017. The company, now renamed the Netherlands Aircraft Company (NAC), changed the project names to F-90 and F-130 in 2013.

operator

As of December 2018, out of 283 Fokker 100s produced, around 135 are still registered. The largest operators include the three Australian airlines Alliance Airlines , QantasLink and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines - which operate 27, 17 and 14 planes - followed by Iran Aseman Airlines with nine aircraft.

Incidents

From the first flight in 1986 to December 2019, the Fokker 100 suffered 18 total losses. In 6 of them, 201 people were killed. Extracts:

  • On March 5, 1993, a Fokker 100 of Palair Macedonian Airways taking off from Skopje airport began to vibrate heavily and crashed behind the runway after several strong tilting movements; 83 of the 97 passengers lost their lives. The reason for the accident was the lack of aircraft de-icing (see also Palair-Macedonian Airways flight 301 ) .
  • On October 31, 1996, shortly after take-off from São Paulo, the thrust reverser activated automatically in a Fokker 100 of the Brazilian airline TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais . An automatic safety system, which then properly throttled the power in the problematic engine, was forcibly bypassed by the co-pilot. The machine crashed into a residential building, all 95 people on board and 4 people on the ground were killed. OceanAir (now Avianca Brazil ) then changed the name of their Fokker 100 to Fokker MK-28 in order to avoid the bad reputation of the Fokker 100 after this accident.
  • On July 9, 1997, a bomb exploded under the seat of a passenger in a Fokker 100 operated by TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais . The detonation tore a two by two meter hole in the airframe of the Fokker 100 (PT-WHK) , through which the passenger was sucked out. The machine could nevertheless be landed safely, the remaining 59 people on board survived the incident. The machine was repaired after the incident and put back into operation.
  • On 15 September 2001, the exploded at a Fokker 100 TAM Linhas Aereas (PT-MRN) on the flight from Recife Airport to Viracopos airport an engine. Flying debris destroyed three windows of the airframe. One passenger was partially sucked out of the aircraft, but was held by another person until landing. The detainee did not survive the incident. After the incident, the machine was repaired and put back into operation (see also TAM Linhas Aéreas flight 9755 ) .
  • On 25 January 2007 should start with a Fokker 100 of Régional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne (F-GMPG) an Air France flight from airport Pau Pyrenees to Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle be performed. After taking off, the machine leaned 35 degrees to the left, then 67 degrees to the right and again 59 degrees to the left. As a result of the flight maneuvers, the machine fell back onto the runway from an altitude of 32 meters and jumped up again when it touched down. At a speed of 160 knots (300 km / h), the captain decided to abort the take-off. The machine touched down again. The thrust was taken back, the machine rolled 300 meters over the runway, broke through the airport fence and crossed a country road behind it. The left main landing gear tore open the cab of a truck and the driver was killed. All the occupants of the plane survived. The machine then slid across a field, with both main landing gears being torn off. The causes of the accident were hoarfrost on the wings and excessive rotation (lifting of the nose) (see also Air France flight 7775 ) .
  • On June 29, 2007, an Ivorian government aircraft, a Fokker 100 (TU-VAA) , operated a flight from Abidjan Airport to Bouaké . Prime Minister Guillaume Soro , an unknown number of members of his delegation and 20 journalists were on board . After landing, the machine was hit while rolling at least three anti-tank missiles . One of them broke through the fuselage. Four people were killed and five others seriously injured.
  • On January 2, 2008, an Iran Air (EP-IDB) plane on its flight from Tehran to Shiraz came off the runway at Tehran-Mehrabad Airport after the left engine failed. The aircraft came close to a Boeing 747 of the Iranian Air Force to a halt and caught fire. The crew and all passengers were able to save themselves. Although the fire was quickly extinguished, the machine was totaled.
  • On December 25, 2012, an Air Bagan (XY-AGC) Fokker 100 landed on a road in the fog near Heho Airport . According to the airline, the emergency landing was forced by an engine fire. There were 65 passengers and 6 crew members on board. A passenger and a motorcyclist who was killed by the landing machine were killed. A fire broke out after landing. There were 26 injured.
  • On March 19, 2019, the main landing gear of a Fokker 100 operated by Iran Air could not be extended before landing in Tehran. The machine only landed on the fuselage with the nose gear extended. All 24 passengers were uninjured.
  • On December 27, 2019, a Bek Air Fokker 100 (UP-F1007) crashed while taking off from Almaty Airport . The machine sagged again shortly after take off and broke through a concrete wall behind the runway before it collided with a building. Of the 95 passengers and five crew members, twelve died (see also Bek Air flight 2100 ) .

Technical specifications

A Fokker 100 of the Blue Line
A Fokker 100 from bmi
OM-BYB as the Slovak government machine

The aircraft causes comparatively little noise during take-off and landing. It has a relatively long range of around 4,300 kilometers, in the version F100 ER (from 1992) of around 4,750 kilometers.

Parameter Data
length    35.31 m
Wingspan    28.08 m
Wing area    93.50 m²
height    8.60 m
drive    Two Rolls-Royce Tay Mk. 650-15 with 68 kN thrust each
Maximum cruising speed    755 km / h ( Mach 0.77)
Range    4,300 km (4,750 km in the ER version)
Service ceiling    11,900 m
Maximum payload   12,000 kg
Max. Takeoff weight    44,450 kg
capacity    109-122 passengers

See also

Web links

Commons : Fokker 100  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farnborough 2012: NG Aircraft veut construire un Fokker de nouvelle génération (French, accessed on March 10, 2013)
  2. ↑ Flight International, November 22, 2016, p. 30.
  3. ^ Aircraft and Fleet Lists. In: ch-aviation.com. Retrieved on December 19, 2018 (English, subtract all "opf" from the list, these are listed twice).
  4. ↑ Fokker 100 Fleet List , Fokker-aircraft.info, accessed on December 19, 2018 (English)
  5. ↑ Accident statistics Fokker 100 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 29, 2019.
  6. ^ ASN Aircraft accident Fokker 100 PT-MRK São Paulo, SP ( Memento from January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ When Avianca renamed an airplane model , accessed on February 9, 2016
  8. ^ Accident report Fokker 100, PT-WHK Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 3, 2019.
  9. ^ Aviation Safety Network: Aircraft accident Fokker 100 PT-MRN Belo Horizonte, MG. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  10. ^ Accident report Fokker 100, F-GMPG Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 3, 2019.
  11. ^ Accident report Fokker 100, TU-VAA Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 3, 2019.
  12. ^ Accident report Fokker 100 EP-IDB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 29, 2019.
  13. ↑ Fokker lands on the road instead of the slope at aeroTELEGRAPH, accessed on December 25, 2012
  14. ↑ Press release of the airline ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on facebook, accessed December 25, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.facebook.com
  15. ↑ Air Bagan plane crash kills at least two in Myanmar on dw.de, accessed on December 25, 2012 (English)
  16. ↑ [1] on avherald.com, accessed on March 19, 2019 (English).
  17. ^ Accident report Fokker 100 UP-F1007 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 29, 2019.
  18. ↑ Flight International, January 7, 2020 (English), p. 8.