UPS Airlines flight 6

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UPS Airlines flight 6
UPS Boeing 747-400 in Dubai KvW.jpg

N571UP in Dubai in November 2008
Accident summary
Accident type Loss of control due to fire
place Nad Al Sheba , Dubai , United Arab Emirates
United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates 
date September 3, 2010
Fatalities 2
Survivors 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 747-44AF / SCD
operator United StatesUnited States UPS Airlines
Mark N571UP
Departure airport Dubai International Airport , United Arab Emirates
United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates 
Destination airport Cologne / Bonn Airport , Germany
GermanyGermany 
Passengers 0
crew 2
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UPS Airlines Flight 6 was a cargo flight operated by the US UPS Airlines . On September 3, 2010, a Boeing 747-400 crashed on the way from Dubai International Airport to Cologne / Bonn Airport near Dubai Airport, killing the two crew members. The machine was reversed after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit. It was the first fatal crash at UPS Airlines. The crash was followed by an investigation into the safety procedures in the event of smoke in the cockpit.

plane

The Boeing 747-400F ( registration number : N571UP) was delivered to UPS Airlines in 2007. She had completed 9,977 flight hours and had been serviced in June 2010.

the accident

The machine took off from Dubai International Airport at 14:53 UTC. At 3:15 pm the crew reported a fire in the cockpit; the aircraft was at this time approx. 220 km west-northwest of Dubai. Bahrain air surveillance was responsible , and the pilots were initially unable to reach the air traffic controllers in Dubai due to a radio problem. Although they were offered a diversion to Doha , the captain decided to return to Dubai and land in a direct approach on runway 12L. About four minutes after the first fire warning, significant problems arose with the control of the aircraft around the transverse axis, which were later attributed to damage to the elevator control cables by the fire. During the further descent, the master stated that the smoke was so thick that he could no longer see the instruments and controls for the radio.

Eight minutes after the emergency occurred, the master's oxygen supply failed, whereupon he passed control of the aircraft to the copilot to look for a portable oxygen cylinder in the rear of the cockpit. During this phase, the captain lost consciousness and could no longer return to his seat - the copilot, who was still relatively inexperienced with 77 flying hours on the Boeing 747, was left to his own devices from this point on. Communication with air traffic control could only take place via third aircraft, which acted as relay stations, as the aircraft was now outside the VHF range of Bahrain, but changing the radio frequency was not possible due to the visibility in the cockpit.

When approaching Dubai, the aircraft was clearly too high and too fast, flew over the airfield and tried to make a left turn in order to land on runway 30 at Sharjah Airport. Due to a dial when entering the autopilot, she made a right turn. Shortly afterwards, at 15:42 UTC, it disappeared from the radar. The investigation later revealed that the co-pilot's control inputs on the elevator had practically no effect. The plane crashed on unpopulated terrain between Emirates Road and Al Ain Highway, narrowly missing the Dubai Silicon Oasis .

The captain Doug Lampe (48) and his first officer Matthew Bell (38) were killed.

examination

On October 8, 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a security warning that Flight 6 had large amounts of lithium batteries charged and Halon 1301 is unsuitable for extinguishing such fires. On October 29, plastic explosives were discovered on board two cargo planes. On October 31, GCAA, the UAE's aviation authority, ruled out that there had been an explosion on board. On November 5, 2010, the Yemeni wing of al-Qaeda assumed responsibility for the crash of UPS Flight 6. However, the primary cause of the crash was ultimately determined to be a massive fire in the area of ​​the hold where the lithium batteries were located.

Representation in the media

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cargo plane crashes near Dubai motorway killing two. BBC News, September 3, 2010, accessed September 3, 2010 .
  2. ^ Chip Cummins: UPS Cargo Plane Crashes Near Dubai. The Wall Street Journal , September 4, 2010, accessed September 6, 2010 .
  3. ↑ UPS confirms Dubai 747-400 crash. Flightglobal.com, September 3, 2010, accessed September 4, 2010 .
  4. ↑ UPS: Crashed 747 was three years old. Flightglobal.com, September 5, 2010, accessed September 6, 2010 .
  5. ↑ a b c Crash: UPS B744 at Dubai on Sep 3rd 2010, fire in cockpit. The Aviation Herald , September 3, 2010, accessed September 4, 2010 .
  6. ↑ a b Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  7. ^ " UPS freighter had radio failure and fire before fatal crash ." Arabian Aerospace . September 9, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
  8. ↑ David Kaminski-Morrow: Ill-fated UPS crew offered Doha alternate after fire alarm. Flight International, accessed September 15, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Tom Bonnett: Two Dead As Cargo Plane Crashes In Dubai. Sky News, September 3, 2010, accessed December 27, 2014 .
  10. ^ Air crash investigation - Fatal delivery. Retrieved January 31, 2016 .
  11. ^ GCAA Announces the Preliminary Report on the accident involving UPS6 Boeing 747-400 on September 3rd, 2010. UAE General Civil Aviation Authority, September 5, 2010, accessed September 5, 2010 .
  12. ↑ UPS flight crashes in Dubai. Business First , September 3, 2010, accessed November 7, 2010 .
  13. ↑ CNN: Source: Explosives found in suspicious packages packed powerful punch
  14. ^ " Al Qaeda Yemen wing claims parcel plot, UPS crash ." Reuters , November 5, 2010.

Coordinates: 25 ° 6 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 55 ° 22 ′ 6.2 ″  E