West Wind Aviation Flight 280
| West Wind Aviation Flight 280 | |
|---|---|
.jpg) The affected machine during its operating time on the Fly540 in 2009 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Stopped flow at takeoff due to icing |
| place |
Fond du Lac , Saskatchewan , Canada
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| date | December 13, 2017 |
| Fatalities | 1 |
| Survivors | 24 |
| Injured | 24 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
  ATR 42-320
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| operator |
West Wind Aviation
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| Mark |
C-GWEA
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| Departure airport |
Fond du Lac Airport , Saskatchewan , Canada
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| Destination airport |
Stony Rapids Airport , Saskatchewan , Canada
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| Passengers | 22nd |
| crew | 3 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The West Wind Aviation flight 280 (flight number ICAO : WEW280 , call sign WEST WIND 280 ) was a regional domestic airliner of the Canadian airline West Wind Aviation . On December 13, 2017, an ATR 42-320 had an accident on this flight shortly after taking off from Fond du Lac Airport in Saskatchewan , killing one person. The failure of the aircraft to de-icing is considered to be the cause of the accident .
machine
The affected machine was an ATR 42-320, an aircraft type of the Italian-French consortium Avions de Transport Régional (ATR) founded by Aeritalia and Aérospatiale for the construction of regional aircraft . The machine was 26 years and 10 months old at the time of the accident. It had the model serial number 240, had been finally assembled at the ATR production site in Toulouse and completed its maiden flight on March 8, 1991 with the test registration F-WWEG . The machine was scheduled for delivery to Brit Air with the aircraft registration F-GHPX , but the deal did not materialize. On May 14, 1991, the Mexican Aviación del Noroeste finally took over the machine and approved it as an XA-RUC . In December 1996, Focus Aviation took over ATR and registered it as the N240JS . It leased the machine from March 9, 1999 to the Kenyan Eagle Aviation , where the ATR started operations as the 5Y-JNT . On June 19, 2001, the aircraft returned to Focus Aviation with its registration number N240JS . The South African company Hurstfield Limited took over the machine on February 15, 2002, and on July 26, 2002 the machine received the new, local registration number ZS-OWU . In February 2003, Aircraft Leasing Services (ALS) from Kenya took over the machine, which was then given the registration number 5Y-BRB . From April 28, 2004, the aircraft was in use at Executive Turbine Aviation from South Africa , and from May 15, 2004 a leasing contract with Zambia Airways followed , before the aircraft returned to the Executive Turbine Aviation fleet in September 2004 . In October 2004 the aircraft went to Aircraft Africa Contracts , and from February 2005 they leased the aircraft to the UN . From January 2, 2007, the Kenyan Fly540 operated the machine with the registration number 5Y-BUT , this was changed by the airline to D2-FLA on June 18, 2010 . The Canadian West Wind Aviation took over the machine on June 1, 2012 and has been operating it as a C-GWEA since then . The twin-engine regional transport aircraft was equipped with two turboprop engines of the type Pratt & Whitney Canada PW121 equipped.
Passengers and crew
There were 22 passengers on board. The crew consisted of three people and consisted of a flight captain, a first officer and a flight attendant.
Weather
According to the weather forecast, it was cloudy with frost and temperatures of −19 ° C.
the accident
At 6.15 p.m. local time, the aircraft began to take off from Fond-du-Lac Airport. In the initial phase of the ascent it came to a stall, the machine lost height and collided 420 meters past the end of the runway with the canopy of trees. The ATR 42 then went down 600 meters behind the runway. A trail of rubble 240 meters long was created. The machine was particularly badly damaged on the left side of the fuselage; the fuselage was torn open in the area of the third row of seats. Although the fuel system had also leaked as a result of the collision with the ground, there was no fire after the accident, which significantly increased the victims' chances of survival.
Victims and survivors
Of the 25 occupants, five passengers and one crew member were seriously injured and 18 people were slightly injured, a 19-year-old passenger who had originally survived the accident died on December 27, 2017 of his serious injuries. After the accident, the victims tried to open an emergency exit from the machine, which they succeeded in about half an hour.
Accident investigation
On April 24, 2018, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) reported that the aircraft was already exposed to icing conditions during the approach to Fond-du-Lac. The crew would then have activated the de-icing systems on board the aircraft. When the de-icing systems were switched off after landing, residual ice remained on parts of the aircraft. Although the material for manual de-icing would have been available at the terminal, the machine started with the wings iced over and lost height shortly after take-off. The manual de-icing equipment available at the terminal consisted of two ladders, a hand spray bottle with a spray stick, an electric blanket and a container with de-icing fluid.
consequences
As a result of the accident, West Wind Aviation's operating license was suspended on December 22, 2017 until the operational defects had been rectified. On May 8, 2018, the airline was able to resume flight operations.
swell
- Accident report ATR 42-320, C-GWEA in the Aviation Safety Network
- Simon Hradecky: Accident: West Wind AT42 at Fond-du-Lac on Dec 13th 2017, descended into terrain shortly after takeoff , December 14, 2017.
- Operating history of the machine on planespotters.net
Coordinates: 59 ° 20 '12.5 " N , 107 ° 12' 6.8" W.