RwandAir flight 205
| RwandAir flight 205 | |
|---|---|
 The sister machine 5Y-JLB |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Collision with the airport terminal |
| place |
Kigali Airport , Rwanda
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| date | November 12, 2009 |
| Fatalities | 1 |
| Survivors | 14th |
| Injured | 10 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Bombardier CRJ100
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| operator |
 JetLink Express for RwandAir
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| Mark |
5Y-JLD
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| Departure airport |
Kigali Airport , Rwanda
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| Destination airport |
Entebbe Airport , Uganda
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| Passengers | 11 |
| crew | 4th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On RwandAir flight 205 (Flight number: WB205 ) took place on 12 November 2009, a serious air accident, when used Bombardier CRJ100ER the Kenyan jetlink express was not to stop after an emergency landing, sat down again on the move and in the airport terminal of the airport Kigali came across. One passenger was killed and ten people injured in the incident.
machine
The aircraft affected was a Bombardier CRJ100ER , which was 12 years old at the time of the accident. The machine with the factory number 7197 was first delivered to the French Air Littoral on November 3, 1997 , which approved it with the aircraft registration F-GPTF . From November 18, 2000, the aircraft was leased to Lufthansa CityLine before it was returned to Air Littoral on December 10, 2000. From October 25, 2002 a leasing to Brit Air followed , from which the machine returned on June 30, 2003. On October 12, 2007, the aircraft was sold to the Kenyan JetLink Express , which allowed this with the new registration 5Y-JLD . The twin-engine regional transport aircraft was equipped with two Turbojettriebwerken type General Electric CF34-3A1 equipped. By the time of the accident, the aircraft had completed a total of 17,170 operating hours, which accounted for 17,025 take-offs and landings. At the time of the accident, the machine was painted the JetLink Express.
crew
There was a four-person crew on board the machine, consisting of a flight captain, a first officer and two flight attendants.
The 37-year-old captain of the machine was a Kenyan citizen and had obtained his pilot's license in 1991 and was certified as a pilot in commercial aviation in 1992. In addition to the Bombardier CRJ100, he had type ratings for Let L-410 , Piper PA-34 and Beechcraft 1900 machines . The overall flight experience of the captain amounted to 11,478 flight hours, of which he had completed around 1,110 in the CRJ100.
The 27-year-old first mate began her pilot training in July 2002 and was certified as a commercial aviation pilot in Australia in January 2005. In addition to the CRJ100, she had type ratings to fly the aircraft types Cessna 152 , Cessna 172 , Piper PA-34 , and Cessna 208 . The first officer had 1,558 hours of flight experience, 533 of which she had in the cockpit of the Bombardier CRJ100. She received her type rating for the Bombardier CRJ100 on February 19, 2009 after 32 hours of training in the flight simulator . At that point, she had 1,025 hours of flight experience.
Passengers and flight schedule
Eleven passengers had taken the WB205 international scheduled flight from Kigali to Entebbe . Among them was a technician from the airline. The flight was carried out by the Kenyan JetLink Express on behalf of RwandAir.
the accident
The plane took off from Kigali Airport at 12:54 p.m. local time. Two minutes after take-off, the pilots reported to air traffic control that the left thrust lever had jammed in the take-off position. The captain then flew on hold while the first mate tried to fix the problem with the thrust levers together with a technician from the airline. The crew members were unable to reduce the thrust of the engine, but neither did they follow the checklist for malfunction of the thrust lever. Eventually the plane turned back for Kigali Airport, with the pilots meanwhile leaving the right thrust lever, which was passable, idle. After a missed approach , the aircraft briefly landed on runway 28 at Kigali Airport. The master let the machine taxi to the apron and switched off engine no. 2, while engine no. 1 could not be switched off and remained at high thrust. Finally the captain let the machine taxi to its assigned parking position. After the machine had come to a standstill, the cockpit crew discussed the problem with the engine that could not be switched off with the technician and determined ways of evacuating the machine. Shortly thereafter, they received a warning about an overheating parking brake. Finally, after 76 seconds of standstill, the machine started moving just as members of the ground crew approached it to place wheel chocks in front of the gear wheels. The CRJ100 rolled off and after a few meters broke through a boundary fence, whereupon the front landing gear collapsed. The pilots managed to steer the plane sharply to the right of a Kenya Airways plane that was being prepared for take-off. After 500 meters, the machine hit the eastern wall of the VIP terminal and bored its way into the terminal building to the far end of the main left entrance.
Rescue operation
Immediately after the impact, the flight attendants initiated the evacuation of the machine. The main left door was blocked. The passengers left the aircraft through the right main entrance door and the emergency exits above the wings. A total of 10 people were injured on board and in the terminal. A Rwandan passenger sustained serious injuries of which she died on admission to the Kigali hospital. The two pilots were among the injured. The first officer was trapped in the cockpit of the machine for three hours after the impact. An ambulance taking an injured pilot to the hospital collided with two motorcycles and pedestrians on the way there. One pedestrian died as a result of this event. One passenger had two broken ribs and a lung injury, and six passengers were discharged from the hospital after an in-depth examination. The two flight attendants were also released after a thorough investigation. The captain had a broken leg, the first mate a broken ankle, the mechanic had bruises and remained in the hospital for observation.
Accident investigation
The accident investigation was carried out by the Aviation Authority. The evaluation of the flight data recorder showed that the engine thrust of engine no. 1 had been constant at 95 percent, while that of engine no. 2 varied between 28 and 88 percent. When landing, the machine had an engine thrust of 95 percent left and 27 percent right. The constant high thrust in engine no. 1 resulted after the rope connecting the thrust lever to the engine had loosened shortly after the take-off thrust was selected. The pilots had not considered using manuals and checklists for dealing with the thrust lever problem. After landing, the machine was brought to a standstill on the apron, with engine no. 1 continuing to deliver high thrust. While the pilots were discussing the problem with the engine, the landing gear brake overheated and the braking force decreased as a result.
It was found that the machine had been serviced on November 10, 2009. The engine cover had to be opened here. The aircraft mechanic who closed the cover last was familiar with the locking mechanism. It could not be confirmed whether he installed them correctly. From the last maintenance to the accident, the machine had been in operation for 4.6 hours and had flown six flight segments within this time.
It was found that the securing bolt on the engine cover had come loose shortly after the pilots gave full thrust on take-off. It was suspected that it had not been installed correctly and that vibrations from the engine caused it to come loose. The unsecured bolt blocked the regulation of the fuel supply to the engine, which meant that its power could not be reduced in the conventional way.
According to the checklist, the pilots should have shut down the engine in such a case by pressing the push button for the engine extinguishing system. This would have cut off the fuel supply to the engine and made landing easier.
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- AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT NUMBER RCAA-ACCID-018 RAMP COLLISION, RWANDAIR FLIGHT 205, OPERATED BY JETLINK BOMBARDIER CL-600-2B19, REGISTRATION 5Y-JLD, KIGALI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NOVEMBER 12, 2009 , Rwanda Civil Aviation
- Accident report in the Aviation Safety Network
- Ignatius Ssuuna, Edwin Mudoni, Gasheegu Muramila: Rwandair aircraft crashes, one dead , The New Times of November 13, 2009.
- Simon Hradecky: Accident: Jetlink Air CRJ1 at Kigali on Nov 12th 2009, throttle jam, impacted terminal after return , Aviation Herald dated November 12, 2009, updated April 19, 2017.
Coordinates: 1 ° 57 ′ 54 ″ S , 30 ° 8 ′ 2 ″ E