1976-2004 global civil aviation crash highlights

Air crash investigation: hijacking in Africa

Ethiopian airlines flight 96 1

1996 1 65438+1On October 23rd, three men broke into the cockpit of Ethiopian Airlines flight 961. They shouted to hijack the plane, saying they had a bomb, then beat the co-pilot and ordered the pilot to fly the plane to Australia. The pilot explained to them that the plane didn't have enough fuel to fly to Australia, but the gangsters didn't believe it. He drove and decided to cheat them. He flew along the coast of Africa, keeping the plane as close to the land and airport as possible. After the plane ran out of fuel, two engines lost power. The pilot suggested crash landing, but the hijackers didn't agree. Finally, the plane landed near a busy seaside resort, 125 people were killed.

Air crash investigation: attack over Baghdad

DHL Airbus A300B4-203F

On October 22nd, 2003/KLOC-0, 165438+DHL cargo plane prepared for routine mail delivery in Baghdad. Because they are in the war zone, the three drivers just want to successfully complete the task and return. A French reporter learned in an interview that Iraqi terrorists had just ordered surface-to-air missiles to attack the launched aircraft, and DHL's cargo plane was the unfortunate victim. Its wings caught fire and its control system was completely destroyed. The frightened pilot had to let the plane fall. Can this seriously damaged plane land safely in an unprecedented way, or will it cause a tragedy of plane crash and death?

Air crash investigation: blowout

British Airways Flight 5390

On June 1990, 10, British Airways Flight 5390 took off from Birmingham International Airport, England, to carry out the flight mission to Male Gai, Spain. When the plane climbed to the altitude of 17300 feet, with a loud noise, the left windshield of the cabin suddenly burst, resulting in a sharp loss of pressure in the cabin. There are 87 passengers and crew on board, and they endure the extremely cold environment of lack of oxygen and pressure. Finally, under the calm response of the crew, the plane forced to land at Southampton Airport, and all passengers and crew on board were killed or injured, creating a miracle in a major aviation accident.

Air crash investigation: there is a bomb on the plane

Philippine Airlines Flight 434

1994 65438+February 1 1, the terrorists of an international terrorist organization passed the airport security check and assembled in the toilet of Philippine Airlines Flight 434. His seat was deliberately placed directly above the plane's fuel tank. When the explosion occurred, the flight was on its way to Tokyo, causing one death and ten injuries in the chaos. 292 frightened passengers had to give their lives to the captain. Fortunately, the flight landed safely. Unexpectedly, new evidence pointed out that the murderer was actually related to the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and Flight 434 was only the object of "practice".

Air crash investigation: collision on the runway

KLM Flight 4805

Pan American World Airlines 1736

The Canary air crash was a serious air crash at Los Rodeo Airport in the Canary Islands, an autonomous territory near the coast of Spain and North Africa, on the evening of March 27th. Two Boeing 747 jumbos collided at high speed on the runway. As the two planes involved in the accident were large passenger planes full of fuel and personnel, this incident killed as many as 583 passengers and crew members on both planes, which was the highest casualty among the disasters caused by airplanes before the 200 1 9 1 1 incident and the most serious air crash so far.

Air crash investigation: crashed on the mountain

American Airlines 965

199565438+in February, a 757 plane of American AA Airlines, which was carrying out flight 965, descended from the north of Cali Airport at night and approached the airport. The crew used the descending procedure of VOR/DME approach. The plane crashed in San Jose Mountain at an altitude of 8900 feet, which is 12000 feet. After investigation, the captain correctly repeated the instructions of ATC, and the aircraft will report to ATC when flying over Tulua Avor and the first DME positioning point. But then the captain set the flight management system to direct flight to NDB, Lozo. On the approach map, Zorro NDB is marked with "R". During the direct flight to point R near Kali Airport, 12 waypoints with "R" as the identifier appeared on CDU. Due to the influence of mindset, the captain randomly selected the first "R" point, but this point is the "R" NDB station in Bogota, which is 0/32 miles away from the airport/KLOC. This means that the plane needs to fly over several mountains from Cali to reach this point. So the above accident happened.

Air crash investigation: cutting corners

Alaska Airlines 26 1

On June 5438+1October 3 1, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 26 1, with the registration number of McDonnell Douglas 83 as, took off from puerto vallarta, Mexico, and finally arrived in Seattle via San Francisco. The plane arrived at San Francisco International Airport at 17: 08+0 1 as scheduled. Passengers on board get off the plane and go through the formalities of entry and departure. 47 of them will continue to fly to Seattle. After the 26 1 flight took off again, everything was normal and the flight was very smooth. 15: 33, the plane is flying at an altitude of 9500 meters and is in a standard autopilot state. The crew received ground instructions to continue cruising at this altitude. 16: 10, the crew suddenly found that the pitching attitude of the aircraft could not be balanced, and the aircraft began to descend and entered a dive. A minute later, at an altitude of 7223 meters, the crew reported that they had regained control of the plane and tried to troubleshoot it. Four minutes later, the crew reported that it was difficult to maintain the altitude, and wondered if the control of the horizontal stabilizer was stuck. They also contacted the company's maintenance personnel in Seattle by radio and asked if the horizontal stabilizer had a switch. The ground technician replied that there was no switch on the tail wing. In view of the fact that the plane has returned to a level flight state, the technicians are optimistic that they will see the crew on the ground. Unfortunately, they will never meet again.

Air crash investigation: death and denial

EgyptAir 990

199965438+1October 3 1, Egyptian Airlines Boeing 767 flew from new york to Cairo. On the way, the captain left the cockpit to go to the toilet, leaving the co-pilot to drive alone. At this time, the plane suddenly plummeted, resulting in weightlessness. The captain tried to save the situation, but the plane crashed with no one lives on board. The accident investigation process was extremely chaotic, and the CIA and the FBI also joined the investigation. The Egyptian government thinks it was an accident, but the United States thinks it was caused by human factors. What makes people feel creepy is that NTSB investigators firmly believe that the air crash was caused by the co-pilot's suicide, or that he himself was a terrorist!

Air crash investigation: fire on board

Swissair flight 1 1 1

On September 2nd, 1998, Swissair flight SR 1 1 (MD-1/HB-IWF) flew from new york to Geneva. After taking off, the crew found smoke in the cockpit and the situation deteriorated. The crew requested an emergency landing from the air traffic control center, about 65438. All 229 passengers and crew on board were killed. After the air crash, the Canadian Transportation Safety Board spent four years and more than $30 million in painstaking and meticulous accident investigation. The final investigation of the accident showed that the spark generated by the short circuit of the wire ignited the polyethylene insulation layer, and then the polyethylene insulation layer ignited other equipment, resulting in the failure of the instrument equipment on the plane, and the plane eventually crashed out of control. Through the lens of NOVA, this documentary completely recorded everything that happened in the four years from the air crash to the end of the investigation.

Air crash investigation: empty flight

Trans Air Flight 236

On the night of August 23rd, 20001,this Airbus A330 took off from Toronto, Canada, with 29/kloc-0 passengers and 13 crew members, ready to fly to Lisbon, Portugal. The aircraft engine broke down while flying over the Azores Islands in the North Atlantic, 300 miles from Lisbon. In the critical situation that two engines were completely paralyzed, 48-year-old pilot Robert Pitch and 28-year-old deputy Dilko Deyag, with their wisdom and courage, successfully forced the plane to land at Lagos airport in Azores, and 304 people on board escaped the fate of being buried in the Atlantic Ocean, only 9 people were slightly injured.

Air crash investigation: life hangs by a thread

Aloha Airlines Flight 243

On the afternoon of April 28th, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 took off from Hawaii for Honolulu. The flight uses B737 and is supervised by the pilot. The co-pilot woman is 37 years old, flying 8,000 hours, and the captain is 44 years old, flying 8,500 hours. 13:45, just after the plane climbed to the cruising altitude, the crew suddenly heard a loud noise overhead, a large ceiling above the middle section of the plane cabin disappeared, and the plane became a "convertible sports car". Only seat belts can prevent them from falling into the sea below. At an altitude of 7300 meters, the air is not only cold, but also low in oxygen content and windy. The passengers on the plane thought the captain was dead, but in fact he was desperately trying to crash landing. As a result, all the people on board survived miraculously except one flight attendant.

Air crash investigation: hijacked

Air France flight 8969

1994 12.24 Four terrorists hijacked an Airbus 300 of Air France Flight 8969 at Boumedine International Airport in Algiers. On 26th, the hijacked passenger plane flew to Marseille airport in France with 172 hostages. Commandos of the French National Gendarmerie Intervention Team launched a surprise attack at the airport, killing four hijackers and rescuing all the hostages. The whole incident resulted in 7 deaths and 25 injuries, including 4 hijackers. Since then, some foreign airlines, including Air France, have cancelled flights to Algeria.

Air crash investigation: children in the cockpit

Aeroflot flight 593

On March 22nd, 1994, Aeroflot bought a batch of Airbus and opened a new direct flight route from Moscow to Hong Kong. The captain who flew this route invited his children into the cockpit and even put them in the captain's seat. Soon after, the plane tilted 45 degrees, then began to hover and dive. The gravity inside the plane has increased several times, so the captain can't return to his driver's seat. Finally, the plane crashed in Siberia, killing all 75 people on board.

Air crash investigation: air collision

Bashkir Airlines Flight 2937

DHL cargo plane

On the evening of July 1 Sunday, 2002, a serious passenger and cargo plane collided in the air near the Swiss border in southern Germany. A Boeing 757 cargo plane belonging to Yankee International Express Company (DHL) flew from Bahrain to Brussels via Bergmo, Italy, and another Russian TU-154 flew from Moscow to Barcelona via Munich. A total of 7/kloc-0 people survived on the two planes, and the wreckage of the plane caused several buildings on the ground to catch fire. Who should be responsible for the slow action of the pilot or the chaotic scheduling when the plane collided?

Air crash investigation: wrong identity

Iran air flight 655.

1July 3, 988, when an unknown plane approached the cruiser on the war-torn Iranian coast. The operators of Aegis mistook this harmless commercial airliner for the enemy's F 14 fighter. At the same time, the pilot of Iran Airlines Flight 655 had no idea that there were warships fighting below, nor did he know that the world's most accurate missile system had locked the plane. The American cruiser Vinson costs one billion dollars, and the Aegis weapon system on board can track more than 100 targets at a time. When the captain of the cruiser ordered the missile to be launched on the plane, he believed in his heart that he would avoid the destruction of the cruiser, but in fact his decision would shock the world. This wrong decision killed 290 people on board, including 66 children. And all this is evidenced by the recording.

Air crash investigation: expressway plane crash

British Midland Airlines 092

1989 65438+1On October 8th, a Boeing 737 of British Inland Airlines took off from London for the mission of Flight 92 to Belfast. After taking off at 13, at an altitude of 28,300 feet, the front fan blade of the left engine broke, causing the plane to vibrate violently. The crew turned off the right engine by mistake, and finally crashed next to expressway, 900 meters away from the head of runway 27 of the East Inland Airport.

Air crash investigation: landing at sea

Ethiopian Airlines 96 1

1996165438+1On October 23rd, a Boeing 767 passenger plane of Ethiopian Airlines took off from Addis Ababa and flew to Abidjan via Nairobi, Brazzaville and Lagos. Shortly after entering Kenya's airspace, he was hijacked by three armed men and asked to fly to Australia. Eventually, due to the exhaustion of fuel, when the pilot tried to land on the sea 500 meters away from Garava Beach, the left engine collided with the sea, causing the plane to disintegrate. On board 125 people died, 50 people survived and many survivors were seriously injured.

Air crash investigation: out of control

Japan Airlines 123 flight

1985 August 12, JAL 123 made a loud noise after taking off 12 minutes. The pilot was surprised to find that the steering system was completely unresponsive. In the absence of oxygen, they tried to control the plane that hit Mount Fuji. After struggling for 30 minutes, the pilot was unable to return to the sky and the plane crashed into Eagle Mountain. An American saw the smoking wreckage and started the rescue mission. Unfortunately, the Japanese authorities ordered the call to stop, and no survivors were expected on board. However, the Japanese side later learned that many injured passengers died during 14 hours. Of the 524 passengers on board, only four survived. These tragic images, expert surveys and eyewitness testimony help us to know more about the worst air crash in history, its mistakes and lessons.

Air crash investigation: racing against the storm

American Airlines 1420 flight

1 June, 19991day, an MD-80 plane of American Airlines crashed while landing at Little Rock Airport in Arkansas, USA. There were 6 crew members and 139 passengers on board, among whom the captain and 10 passengers died and more than 80 people were injured. Cause of the accident: The flight 1420 was delayed for more than 2 hours due to bad weather. When the plane landed in stormy weather at night, it ran 300 meters off the runway and hit the communication tower, which was destroyed. National transportation safety board said that the failure to open the spoiler when the plane landed and the continuous work of the crew 13.5 hours were the reasons for the crash.

Air crash investigation: suicide attack

FedEx Flight 705

On April 7th, 1994, FedEx Flight 705 is taking off from Memphis, USA. An off-duty FedEx flight mechanic suddenly rushed into the cockpit, hit the driver on the head with a hammer and carried a fish gun. The crazy attacker seems to intentionally kill the driver and hijack the plane. This program reproduces the dangerous situation in the cockpit of FedEx Flight 705 and the heroic deeds of the pilot through eyewitness descriptions.

Air crash investigation: solving the disaster

United airlines flight 8 1 1

1On February 24th, 989, on flight 8 1 1 from Honolulu to Sydney, when the plane was at an altitude of 23,000 feet, the right front cargo door suddenly popped open, resulting in rapid pressure loss. Strong internal stress tore the entire right front fuselage, and nine passengers were sucked out of the cabin and fell into the Pacific Ocean, and then the crew made an emergency landing in Honolulu.

Air crash investigation: injured birds

Asa flight 529

1August 2, 9951day, US Southeast Atlantic Airlines Flight 529 was a twin-engine turboprop regional aircraft. Shortly after taking off from Atlanta, its altitude was 18000 feet. Suddenly, the propeller of the left engine broke and the plane descended rapidly at a speed of 2000 feet per minute. The crew immediately declared a state of emergency and searched for the forced landing site. 12 minutes later, the plane left 30 degrees and tilted down 20 degrees. No one died during the forced landing, but unfortunately, the subsequent fire caused 8 of the 29 people on board to burn and die. The Federal Aviation Accident Investigation Bureau determined that the cause of the accident was corrosion and cracking of the propeller. The investigation concluded that fatal mistakes could have been avoided, but propeller manufacturers deliberately covered up their product problems.

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