Streamline Aviation Flight 200

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Streamline Aviation Flight 200
G-SSWP Shorts SD.330-100 Streamline Avn MAN 10AUG00 (6925481065) .jpg

A shorts 330 from Streamline Aviation
Accident summary
Accident type Collision on the ground
place Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport , FranceFranceFrance 
date May 25, 2000
Fatalities 1
1. Aircraft
Aircraft type United KingdomUnited Kingdom Shorts 330-200
operator United KingdomUnited Kingdom Streamline Aviation
Mark United KingdomUnited Kingdom G-SSWN
Departure airport Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport , FranceFranceFrance 
Destination airport London Luton Airport , United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Passengers 0
crew 2
Survivors 1
2. Aircraft
Aircraft type United StatesUnited States McDonnell Douglas MD-83
operator FranceFrance Air Liberté
Mark FranceFrance F-GHED
Departure airport Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport , FranceFranceFrance 
Stopover Madrid-Barajas Airport , SpainSpainSpain 
Passengers 151
crew 6th
Survivors 157
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Streamline Aviation Flight 200 was a scheduled cargo flight of Streamline Aviation from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to London Luton Airport , which was to be operated on May 25, 2000 with a Shorts 330-200 . Before departure, there was a serious incident when a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 of the Air Liberté that the boot drive for Air Liberté Flight 8807 carried out, an international charter flight to Madrid , collided with the machine, the left wing of the MD -83 slashed the cockpit of the shorts, killing one pilot and seriously injuring the other.

Airplanes and occupants

Streamline Aviation shorts 330-200

machine

The first machine was a British-made Shorts 330-200 regional airliner . The affected machine with the factory number SH.3064 from the year of construction 1980/81 was registered on January 15, 1981 with the aircraft registration G-BIOF to the manufacturer, who then leased the machine to different operators. The machine was delivered to Coral Air on March 23, 1981 , where it was initially in operation with the registration number N4270A , from May 1981 onwards as the N280VY . In June 1982 Pennsylvania Airlines , which operated flights on behalf of Allegheny Commuter , took over the machine. From December 1982 the machine belonged to Command Airways and from April 12, 1983 to Fischer Brothers Aviation . From June 1983 Avair operated the machine with the Irish aircraft registration EI-BNM , from April 4, 1984 the machine was in operation under its original registration G-BIOF for Air Écosse , before the lease return to the manufacturer on September 6, 1985 returned. From September 13, 1985 the machine was in operation at the Nigerian company Okada Air as 5N-AOX and from January 12, 1989 with the G-LEDN designation at Janes Aviation . The Titan Airways took over the machine in December 1991. In the Streamline Aviation was the machine from 25 March 1993 in operation, from 3 March 2000 with the new air vehicle registration G-SSWN . The twin-engine commuter aircraft was equipped with two turboprop -Triebwerken type Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-45R equipped. By the time of the accident, the machine had completed a total of 15,215 operating hours, which accounted for 19,504 take-offs and landings.

crew

There was a two-person crew on board the machine, consisting of a flight captain and a first officer. The 41-year-old captain had 2,240 hours of flight experience, 1,005 of which he had completed in Shorts 330 aircraft. The 43-year-old first officer had 4,370 hours of flight experience, but only 14 hours of experience in the cockpit of the Shorts 330. He had only joined the airline on May 22, 2000 and was undergoing training on this type of aircraft. On 22./23. May and on 23/24 May he had already flown the route Luton - Paris Charles de Gaulle - Luton, on May 25 he flew the route from Luton to Paris Charles de Gaulle.

McDonnell Douglas MD-83 of Air Liberté

machine

An Air Liberté MD-83 in 2000

The second machine involved was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (DC-9-83) with the serial number 49576 and the model serial number 1422 , which was rolled out at the McDonnell Douglas plant in Long Beach (California) on September 30, 1987 and for the Irish aircraft leasing company Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) was built, which had the machine delivered to the first lessee Spantax on November 23, 1987 , where the MD-83 went into operation as EC-EFK . On April 1, 1988, the machine with the registration EI-BWE returned to the lessor, who leased the machine to Air Liberté from May 7, 1988 . With this airline, the machine received the new and final aircraft registration number F-GHED on January 11, 1989 . From December 12, 1989, the machine was leased to the Mexican La Tur Airlines before it returned to Air Liberté on April 24, 1990. From May 4, 1990, the machine was leased again, this time to the subsidiary Air Liberté Tunisie . Since April 17, 1995 Air Liberté operated the machine again. The twin-engine narrow-body aircraft was equipped with two Turbojettriebwerken type Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 equipped.

Crew and passengers

151 passengers had started the charter flight from Paris to Madrid. There was a six-person crew on board the machine, which consisted of a flight captain, a first officer and four flight attendants. The 55-year-old flight captain had 11,418 hours of flight experience, of which he had completed 6,935 hours with the rank of captain. The 47-year-old first officer had 11,104 hours of flight experience.

the accident

A mail flight from Paris to Luton was to be carried out with the Shorts 330. At 02:38 a.m., the aircraft's crew received clearance to taxi from the cargo handling gate N51 to runway 27. At around the same time, Air Liberté's MD-83 also rolled to runway 27, from where it was supposed to take off for the flight to Madrid. At 02:44, the air traffic controller at the airport taxiing control asked the crew of the shorts 330 whether they wanted to taxi onto runway 27 via an intermediate taxiway. The crew answered in the affirmative and received clearance to use taxiway 16. At 02.50: 49 a.m., the tower air traffic controller gave the MD-83 permission to take off. His colleague then instructed the crew of the shorts to stop and wait. While the MD-83 was making the take-off run, the shorts rolled onto their runway. At a speed of about 155 knots (about 287 km / h), the left wing of the MD-83 slashed the cockpit of the shorts. The crew of the MD-83 then aborted the take-off.

root cause

According to the accident investigation, the accident was caused on the one hand by the incorrect perception of the position of the aircraft by the responsible air traffic controller. Furthermore, there was a lack of systematic procedures for checking and correcting such errors on the part of air traffic control. The crew of the shorts were charged with having no doubts that they should be piloted to the start position first in line. Contributing factors mentioned were the overexposure of runway 27, which made it difficult for the air traffic controller to see the runway directly, the difficult access to radar information that was either difficult to read or not displayed, the use of two languages ​​for radio communication, whereby, due to their inadequate knowledge of French, the crew of the shorts could not know that the MD-83 was to perform the take-off roll and finally the steep angle between taxiway 16 and runway 27, which made it impossible for the shorts crew to get out of the runway before taxiing to view this.

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