Transbrasil flight 107

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Transbrasil flight 107
Embraer EMB-110 PT-TBC T.Brasil SDU 04/05/75 edited-2.jpg

Transbrasil's sister machine PT-TBC
Accident summary
Accident type Tire damage during take-off run
place Chapecó-São Cristóvão Airport , Santa Catarina , BrazilBrazil 1960Brazil 
date 22nd January 1976
Fatalities 7th
Survivors 2
Aircraft
Aircraft type Brazil 1960Brazil Embraer EMB-110C Bandeirante
operator Brazil 1960Brazil Transbrasil
Mark Brazil 1960Brazil PT-TBD
Departure airport Florianópolis Airport , BrazilBrazil 1960Brazil 
1. Stopover Joaçaba Airport , BrazilBrazil 1960Brazil 
2. Stopover Concórdia Airport , BrazilBrazil 1960Brazil 
3. Stopover Chapecó-São Cristóvão Airport , BrazilBrazil 1960Brazil 
4. Stopover Erechim-Comandante Kraemer Airport , BrazilBrazil 1960Brazil 
Destination airport Porto Alegre Airport , BrazilBrazil 1960Brazil 
Passengers 7th
crew 2
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On the Trans Brasil-Flight 107 (Flight number: Tr107 ) a serious air accident, as the start of a occurred on January 22, 1976 Embraer EMB-110C Bandeirante the airline Trans Brasil from the airport Chapecó-São Cristóvão burst a landing gear tire of the machine. Seven out of nine people on board were killed in the incident.

machine

The aircraft concerned was an Embraer EMB-110C Bandeirante built in 1973 with the serial number 110011. The aircraft had the aircraft registration PT-TBD . The twin-engined regional aircraft was 2 turboprop engines of the type Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 equipped. The machine had two-tone, blue paint.

crew

There was a two-person crew on board the machine, consisting of a flight captain and a first officer. The captain of the machine was 25-year-old Marcos Antônio Pletrobom de Alvarenga Mafra, who lives alone. The first officer was Antônio Olintho Garcia de Oliveira. No flight attendants were provided on this regional flight.

Passengers and flight schedule

The flight plan provided for a flight from Florianópolis to Porto Alegre , with stopovers in Joaçaba , Concórdia , Chapecó and Erechim . Seven passengers had taken the flight to Erechim.

Course of the flight and course of the accident

The machine started with a nine-minute delay in Florianópolis, because it was waiting for a delayed machine from São Paulo , whose passengers were to take the flight. The flight from Florianópolis via Joaçaba and Concórdia to Chapecó went without any special incidents, passengers got off at the stopovers and others got on. The stopover in Chapecó lasted five minutes, and no passengers got off. At around 3:30 p.m., the aircraft started to take off from the dusty, gravel runway of the poorly preserved Chapecó airport , which at the time was in the area of ​​today's São Cristóvão near the old town. During the take-off run, the right main landing gear tire of the machine burst at high speed after being perforated by a sharp pebble. Captain Mafra reduced the thrust and braked abruptly. Since the brakes on the machine did not have an anti-lock braking system, the wheels locked during the subsequent braking, which greatly reduced the coefficient of friction , while the tires burst, which made the situation even worse. The aircraft skidded over the runway, which was very short at the time, rolled over it and hit a ditch behind it. The machine remained relatively intact after the impact, but began to smoke and caught fire shortly afterwards.

Rescue and recovery operation

The occupants of the machine could not free themselves. Workers from the adjacent, agricultural CIPAL production plant rushed to help and opened the cabin door from the outside. However, they were only able to save two passengers before the machine burned out. The first passenger could still be saved from the fire spreading, the body of the second was already on fire. When the first aiders pulled the passenger out of the plane, according to testimony from inside the bandeirante no shouts or screams from people could be heard, only the crackling of the flames. Two minutes later the machine exploded. The airport fire brigade arrived 5 minutes after the accident, but it took another 15 minutes before they were able to put out the fire. The two injured were taken to the Santo Antônio Hospital. The scene of the accident was cordoned off and the charred corpses of the accident victims recovered.

Victims and survivors

Both pilots and five of the seven passengers died in the accident. The two male passengers who were rescued were seriously injured. The first passenger suffered only pulmonary edema and was soon discharged after an examination in the hospital. He was flown to his home town of Porto Alegre on another Transbrasil plane . The skin on the body of the second victim, a man from Rio Grande do Sul , was 99 percent burned, according to the doctors.

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