TABA flight 800

TABA flight 800
	A similar Fairchild FH-227B
Accident summary
Accident type	Controlled flight into terrain
place	near Altamira , Brazil
date	June 6, 1990
Fatalities	22nd
Survivors	20th
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Fairchild-Hiller FH-227B
operator	Transportes Aéreos da Bacia Amazônica
Mark	PT-ICA
Departure airport	Belém Airport , Brazil;
1. Stopover	Altamira Airport , Brazil;
2. Stopover	Santarém Airport , Brazil;
3. Stopover	Itaituba airport , Brazil;
4. Stopover	Alta Foresta Airport , Brazil;
Destination airport	Cuiabá Airport , Brazil;
Passengers	39
crew	3
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The TABA flight 800 (flight number: T2 800 ) was a domestic flight of the Brazilian airline Transportes Aéreos da Bacia Amazônica from Belém to Cuiabá with stops in Altamira , Santarém , Itaituba and Alta Foresta . On June 6, 1990, a Fairchild-Hiller FH-227B had an accident on this flight after a pilot flew the machine off-road shortly before landing . In the incident, 22 out of 42 people on board were killed. As it turned out later, the master was overtaken because he had not used his rest time before the flight to sleep as necessary.

machine

The aircraft concerned was a Fairchild-Hiller FH-227B built in 1967 with the model serial number 570. The machine from the American manufacturer Fairchild-Hiller was one from a license manufacturing contract with Fokker to manufacture the Fokker F-27 in the form of the identically constructed Fairchild F-27 further developed variant. The FH-227 had an elongated fuselage compared to the Fokker / Fairchild F-27. The twin-engine short - haul aircraft was equipped with two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engines .

The aircraft destroyed in the accident bore the aircraft registration number PT-ICA . After its delivery to the first customer Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. in 1967, the machine was in operation with the aircraft registration N227V , later as N9NL for Nitro 9 Lubricants & Fuel and from July 13, 1976 for the Iranian Pars Air as EP-PAR . At TABA, the machine was finally in operation from June 1983.

Flight plan

TABA flight 800 was scheduled to begin in the early hours of June 6th at Belém Airport and head to Cuiabá Airport , with scheduled stops at Altamira , Santarém , Itaituba and Alta Foresta airports .

Before the flight

The captain, who piloted the machine on TABA flight 800 on June 6, 1990, had already been deployed as a pilot on June 5 and had flown 4.5 hours on TABA flights 814 and 815 within a time frame of 24 hours . Instead of allowing himself a break, the captain preferred to do various work at home between shifts, which he occupied from 9:50 a.m. to at least 9:30 p.m. After not having slept more than five hours, the captain returned to his place of work as a pilot in a bad mood.

the accident

The plane took off in Belém in the early morning hours of June 6th in the dark. During the approach to Altamira, where the first stopover was planned, night flight conditions prevailed. The pilots carried out an instrument approach on runway 07, knowing that they had to fly through a fog bank on the way . It was common practice for pilots to conduct such approaches according to visual flight rules . The pilots flew into the fog bank and expected that they would fly through it before the runway threshold. For this reason, the master aborted the instrument approach and switched to visual flight. The pilots flew one approaching the runway traffic pattern and informed the air traffic control that they had extended the landing gear. Shortly thereafter, the machine sank below the minimum flight altitude. It collided with trees and fell to the ground 850 meters from the runway. Of the 42 people on board, 22 died.

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