Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363

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Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363
Boeing 737-53A, Tatarstan Airlines JP7127704.jpg

The plane involved in the accident in 2011
Accident summary
Accident type Spatial disorientation after missed approach
place Kazan , RussiaRussiaRussia 
date 17th November 2013
Fatalities 50
Survivors 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type United StatesUnited States Boeing 737-53A
operator RussiaRussia Tatarstan Airlines
Mark BermudaBermuda VQ-BBN
Departure airport Moscow Domodedovo Airport , RussiaRussiaRussia 
Destination airport Kazan Airport , Tatarstan RussiaRussiaRussia 
Passengers 44
crew 6th
Lists of aviation accidents

The Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 (flight number U9363 ) was a domestic flight to the Russian airline Tatarstan Airlines from airport Domodedovo to Kazan . On November 17, 2013, an aircraft accident occurred on this flight with a Boeing 737-53A with the Bermudian aircraft registration VQ-BBN , in which all 50 people on board were killed

plane

The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 737-53A, which was 16 years and 7 months old at the time of the accident. The machine was assembled at the Boeing plant in Renton , Washington , and made its maiden flight on June 18, 1990, before being handed over to the Irish leasing company Ansett Worldwide in July 1990 , which leased the machine to various airlines until the end. The aircraft had the factory number 24785, it was the 1885. Boeing 737 from ongoing production. The machine was initially registered with the aircraft registration F-GGML , with which it was operated from July 13, 1990 by Euralair International and from June 1, 1992 by Air France . On July 15, 1995, the machine was operated by Uganda Airlines as 5X-USM and from February 2000 as PT-SSI for the Brazilian Rio Sul . On July 24, 2005, the machine returned to its owner from the lease as the N785AW . From September 1, 2005, the Romanian Blue Air operated the machine with the identification YR-BAB . From May 17, 2008, the aircraft with the aircraft registration LZ-BOY was in operation with Bulgaria Air . On December 18, 2008, Tatarstan Airlines was the last lessee to take over the machine. The twin- engined , narrow -body aircraft was equipped with two CFMI CFM56-3C1 engines. By the time of the accident, the machine had had a cumulative operating performance of 51,547 operating hours with 36,596 take-offs and landings.

The machine that crashed was involved in two incidents in the past:

  1. During operation at Rio Sul, the machine came on December 17, 2001 when landing at Tancredo Neves Airport under bad weather conditions 70 meters from the runway, whereupon the landing gear was damaged. All 108 inmates survived the incident unscathed.
  2. On November 26, 2012, the aircraft had to make an emergency landing in Kazan shortly after take-off due to problems with the cabin pressure.

crew

The captain of the machine was 47-year-old Rustem Gabdrachmanowitsch Salichow ( Russian: Рустем Габдрахманович Салихов ), who had been flying for the airline since 1992. He had 2,755 hours of flight experience, including 2,509 with the Boeing 737. The 47-year-old First Officer Viktor Nikiforowitsch Guzul (Russian Виктор Никифорович Гуцул) flew for Tatarstan Airlines since 2008 and had 2,093 hours of flight experience, including 1943 with the Boeing 737 were four flight attendants on board.

the accident

Flight profile

The plane took off at 18:25 local time from Moscow Domodedovo Airport for a one-hour flight to Kazan, 800 kilometers to the east .

After an unstabilized missed approach to Kazan airport , far to the right of the glide path , the aircraft's crew decided, with visual contact with the runway, to initiate a go - around due to its excessive altitude . Barely fifty seconds later, the machine hit the ground with an angle of attack of -75 degrees and a speed of 242 knots (448 km / h) and exploded in the process. A second explosion occurred 40 seconds after the impact. The images from a surveillance camera at the airport show how the machine falls almost vertically to the ground and goes up in flames. All 44 passengers and 6 crew members were killed. It was reported that there were strong winds and dense clouds at the time of the accident.

Kazan Airport remained closed for 24 hours and resumed operations on November 18.

Victim

nationality Passengers crew total
RussiaRussia Russia 42 6th 48
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 1 0 1
UkraineUkraine Ukraine 1 0 1
Total 44 6th 50

The passenger list was published by the Russian Emergency Ministry. Among the victims was Irek Minnichanov, the son of Rustam Minnichanov , President of the Republic of Tatarstan.

causes

The aircraft accident investigation was led by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK). According to the official accident investigation report of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) published on December 24, 2015, the accident was caused by a combination of pilot errors. The pilots were missing, the machine according to eintretendem flying skills stall trap. The aviation deficits of the pilots were attributed to the airline's succinct security policy and the lack of control by the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosawiazija). The missed approach was based on a position error in the navigation system.

During the go- around, the autopilot was switched off by entering TOGA . The machine was then flown manually. In the final report, it is assumed that the pilots developed tunnel vision due to their high workload and did not hear the warning tone that signaled the shutdown of the autopilot. According to the TOGA input, the thrust was 83 percent, which corresponded to the flight attitude. In addition, the flaps in the landing configuration of 30 degrees were retracted to 15 degrees and later the landing gear was retracted. However, there was no control input from the pilots. The machine began to climb and 20 seconds after the go-around was initiated, it reached an angle of attack of 25 degrees with falling airspeed. Now there was a nose-down control input from the pilot in command , whereby the aircraft was leveled at an altitude of 2300 feet, but the speed had dropped to its minimum of 117 knots, which did not correspond to the limits of the safe operation of the aircraft. A short time later, further corrections had led to a negative angle of attack of 20 degrees, which further developed into a steep dive. Shortly before the impact there were more chaotic tax inputs.

Federal Air Transport Agency

Rosaviazija refused to accept the official investigation report and referred to the elevator thesis of her representative Studenikin. The MAK accused Rosaviazija that their attitude reflected the refusal to recognize the deficiencies in state supervision of pilot training that the report had identified.

consequences

At the beginning of December 2013, the Russian air transport authority recommended that Tatarstan Airlines withdraw its Air Operator Certificate . The withdrawal of the AOC took place on December 31, 2013. The airline was taken over by Ak Bars Aero .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 dead as passenger jet crashes in central Russia (PHOTOS, VIDEO) . Russia Today . 17th November 2013.
  2. ↑ ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-53A VQ-BBN Kazan Airport (KZN). Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Harro Ranter: ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-53A PT-SSI Belo Horizonte-Tancredo Neves International Airport, MG (CNF). In: aviation-safety.net. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Incident: Tatarstan B735 near Kazan on November 26th 2012, loss of cabin pressure. The Aviation Herald, November 27, 2012, accessed July 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Boeing airliner crashes in Russia, 50 killed. Reuters, November 17, 2013, accessed November 18, 2013 .
  6. ↑ a b Crash: Tatarstan B735 at Kazan on Nov 17th 2013, crashed on landing . The Aviation Herald. 17th November 2013.
  7. ↑ Liveleak.com - Boeing crash in Kazan city, Russia caught on camera. .
  8. ↑ Dramatic footage: Kazan Boeing crash caught on camera . YouTube, RT Channel. 18th November 2013.
  9. ^ Dozens Killed As Plane Crash Lands in Russia . Sky News. 17th November 2013.
  10. ↑ Boeing 737 crashes in Russian city of Kazan, 50 killed . torontosun.com.
  11. ↑ The plane crashed in Kazan ( Russian ) Interfax . 17th November 2013.
  12. ↑ ru: Авиакатастрофа в Казани: опубликован список 50 погибших. In: ITAR TASS . November 17, 2013, accessed July 9, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Final Report VG-BBN , mak-iac.org, December 23, 2015.
  14. ^ David Kaminski-Morrow: Tatarstan Airlines faces threat of grounding . In: Flightglobal , December 5, 2013. Archived from the original on December 9, 2013. 
  15. ↑ Polina Borodina: Rosaviatsia commission recommends revoking Tatarstan AOC . In: Air Transport World , December 4, 2013. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. 
  16. ↑ Polina Borodina: Russia to revoke Tatarstan AOC . In: Air Transport World , December 23, 2013. 
  17. ^ Airline "Tatarstan" lost operator certificate (Russian) . In: Kommersant , December 31, 2013. 

Coordinates: 55 ° 36 ′ 32 ″  N , 49 ° 16 ′ 37 ″  E