XAAPB From Mexico, joined Jan 2005, 376 posts, RR: 6 Reply 2, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week ago) and read 36439 times:
It is confirmed AeroUnion A300 news report said part of the plane fell into airport land including an engine and a wing is on the street that goes to the airport!
sounds very bad!
RIP
ar385 From Mexico, joined Nov 2003, 4926 posts, RR: 27 Reply 3, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 36345 times:
Reported as an AeroUnión A300. It was bound for LAX. So far, 5 people are death, all reported by the Federal Police as crew. However the numer is "expected" to rise. Which I don´t see how, as there are no reports of hotels being hit, although one of the plane´s wings is on the main road to the airport, called "Boulevard".
The plane was taking off. Also, some cars are reported destroyed from the adjacent carparks by debris. Would those be the ones close to the ViVaerobús terminal? All roads to the airport are closed by the authorities as of now. Weather was not a factor, according to "experts".
Dazed767 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 5447 posts, RR: 53 Reply 7, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 35408 times:
LMML 14/32 From Malta, joined Jan 2001, 2560 posts, RR: 7 Reply 8, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 35245 times:
Has anyone ever noticed that whenever there is a major crash two others will follow shortly? This is the third in this recent series - The Polish Airforce Tu154, the Merpati B733 and this A300.
A340Spotter From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1974 posts, RR: 25 Reply 9, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 35222 times:
Sad to read this. My visit to MEX in Feb included a short visit with Aero Union, meeting lots of their staff and taking a photo of this plane with them.
RIP
JSD
"Irregardless, it's a Cat III airplane, we don't need an alternate!"
speedygonzales From Norway, joined Sep 2007, 678 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 35063 times:
Quoting LMML 14/32 (Reply 8): Has anyone ever noticed that whenever there is a major crash two others will follow shortly? This is the third in this recent series - The Polish Airforce Tu154, the Merpati B733 and this A300.
That's highly likely to be just perception. Airline chrashes can be modelled as a Poisson process, which means there will be occationally long times without chrashes, and occationally several chrashes in a short timespan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_process
tom355uk From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2007, 336 posts, RR: 3 Reply 11, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 35015 times:
Quoting LMML 14/32 (Reply 8): Has anyone ever noticed that whenever there is a major crash two others will follow shortly? This is the third in this recent series - The Polish Airforce Tu154, the Merpati B733 and this A300.
Yes, admittedly this does seem to occur more often than not - more coincidence more than anything else though, I suspect.
Another tragic loss though, and they do say that bad luck always comes in threes......
solnabo From Sweden, joined Jan 2008, 795 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 34128 times:
Quoting LMML 14/32 (Reply 8): Has anyone ever noticed that whenever there is a major crash two others will follow shortly? This is the third in this recent series - The Polish Airforce Tu154, the Merpati B733 and this A300.
LHRspotter From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2006, 182 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 33851 times:
Quoting LMML 14/32 (Reply 8): Has anyone ever noticed that whenever there is a major crash two others will follow shortly? This is the third in this recent series - The Polish Airforce Tu154, the Merpati B733 and this A300.
And the CX incident in HKG yesterday, although not a crash seems pretty serious.
I too noticed that major air crashes sometimes happen in a very short time span, sometimes within hours:
2010: Jan 24th the TU154 crash in Iran. Jan 25th the Ethiopian 738 crash in Beirut.
2009: Feb 7th the Embraer crash in Brazil, Feb 12th the Colgan crash and Feb 25th - the TK1951 accident in AMS
then between 24th July and 11th Aug - another FOUR fatal crashes.
2008: May 25th the Calitta crash in Brussels, May 30th the TACA overrun in TGU
then Aug 20th Spanair crash in MAD, Aug 24th Itek 732 crash in Kyrgizistan.
na From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9705 posts, RR: 10 Reply 15, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 33855 times:
With just 5 airliner write-offs so far (and among them just one deadly accident) this had been a particularly "uneventful" year until the Polish president crashed 4 days ago.
And now three major incidents in 4 days.
Btw the freighter involved today was one of the 10 oldest A300s still active.
netjetsintl From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 593 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 33654 times:
If weather was not the reason, then it's most likely mechanical.....
HBIHLtoEZE From Switzerland, joined Aug 2004, 280 posts, RR: 2 Reply 19, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 30556 times:
Oh no,
well, even though there have been a couple of crashes in the last few weeks those are in no way related to each other...
it looks as if, unfortunately, these crashes happened because of the fact that fatal errors were repeated -
Ethiopian Airlines 409: allegedly the preliminary report into the accident states that human error was the cause.
Merpati 836: Indonesian safety records, well, those statistics are indeed horrifying - there have been so many utterly avoidable accidents that should deter passengers from flying certain airlines. I've just checked the aviation-safety.net's database - there have been 10 (!) 737 hull losses in Indonesia in the last 10 years alone...and many, many more smaller incidents involving all kinds of aircraft.
Polish Air Force crash: allegedly the pilot was put under enormous pressure as President Kaczynski wanted to attend the April 7 commemorations at Katyn. What other pilot attempts to land four times when he is aware of the ultimate danger when not being able to see anything? Air traffic control (their linguistic knowledge was just fine) advised the pilot to land at another airport, due to the poor visibility.
Aero Union: Unfortunately, Mexico has had some major security issues concerning their airlines, too. TAESA was shut down in 1999 after a DC-9 crash, in April 2006, the Mexican federal Secretariat of Communications and Transport suspended all operations of Aerocalifornia after the civil aviation authorities determined the airline was not complying with its safety standards (the result of some landing incidents and faked maintenance papers), and AVIACSA has been facing similar problems for the last two years...
It is very sad indeed to see another airliner crash, let's hope that the cause of the crash will be ruled out and this is resulting in preventing more accidents in the future...
I once pictured the crashed Aero Union's A300 on finals to LAX - looking at the pictures now is a bizarre, ghastly experience:
rfields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6191 posts, RR: 25 Reply 21, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 29952 times:
Quoting HBIHLtoEZE (Reply 19): What other pilot attempts to land four times when he is aware of the ultimate danger when not being able to see anything?
The aircraft did NOT make four attempts to land.
The aircraft with the same flight crew had made two previous trips to that airport in the previous week including on to deliver the Polish Prime Minister and his party to Smolensk. On arriving at the airport area the day of the crash, the plane was placed in a holding pattern during a discussion between ATC and the crew about weather. Due to the highly political nature of the flight/ ceremony - the discussion had to include the President's aides and the probability of returning to Warsaw. There was no reason to divert to an alternate airport as the President would miss the ceremony. There was also confusion on the ground. Apparently the President was not expected/ invited to the ceremony, the Prime Minister was the Poland government representative and on scene. The Air Base commander did not close the airport, though he probably should have done so.
The crew elected to make one approach attempt - and crashed on the only approach attempt.
rfields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6191 posts, RR: 25 Reply 24, posted (3 years 2 months 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 29305 times:
The inital reports of crashes when translated from one language to another often contain errors which become 'facts' because the major media never report the corrections to the translation errors.
re the Mexico crash
I've seen reports of the crash on takeoff and on landing.
Anyone have any certain information?
25 na: The wellknown specialist webpages such as aviation-safety.net, jacdec and avherald are reporting the crew of 2 plus 3 on the ground died. As a 1979-bu
27 Gonzalo: And so far is still a "quiet year" compared to the worst in history, that's talking about hard numbers. All of this subjective perceptions can be eas
28 PeachAir: The LA Times is reporting the following: "The Airbus A300 was trying to land in rainy and cloudy conditions at about 11 p.m. when it crashed on a roa
29 BHMDiversion: DL had a flight that was delayed this morning due to the road closing. Apparently, this happened around 1130L in MTY after they had arrived.
30 TimeToFly: Sad, really sad. Captain was Adolfo Muller, father of the first officer Manfred Muller. My condolences to everyone who lost a family member, a friend
31 N405MX: Just came back from the crash site, the pics are from the tailfin (what is left of it) the rest of the plane vanished in the ground, from the position
32 Fly2HMO: Most likely it was pilot error, if not, then weather, and if not, then mechanical.
33 AM744: What about windshear? On a related topic. Has the cargo DC-9 crash in Saltillo report came out? Are DGAC reports public? Where can a regular citizen g
34 ghost77: Check the METARS on this link that was posted above: http://www.avherald.com/h?article=42a18e75&opt=0 Between the accident: MMMY 140445Z 11014KT 1
35 GARUDAROD: My heartfelt condolences to everyone at AeroUnion. That is a very tight knit company. I did some consulting work for them last year and they are all l
36 timpdx: wow, I actually have a photo of this plane XA-TUE on approach to LAX from some years back. Rest in Peace, all.
37 pzurita1: Very good question... very good question...
38 Fly2HMO: I think calling those METARS terrible is a stretch. Certainly poor weather, but nothing drastic. No wind gusts and visibility, though close, still ab
39 AR385: I heard the guy from the DGAC on TV this morning, and he mentioned that planes landed trouble free before and after the crash. I do not think weather
40 AirJamaica: Indeed there have been very conflicting stories re this A300 accident in MTY. '' An AeroUnion Airbus A-300B4-200, registration XA-TUE performing frei
41 ThePinnacleKid: One can never judge the weather being a factor based on aircraft arriving before or after... just look to Delta 191 at DFW for example. That said, I
42 Fly2HMO: I just read in a Mexican forum that a member had been working in the hangar area the night before. He said he didn't see the plane until after the fac
43 edelag: The plane is what 30 years old right?? When was the next major overhaul due? I know planes are made to last years and years of service.. but after all
44 Fly2HMO: Nobody knows that except for the airline's maintenance department and the DGAC. Unlikely. AFAIK Aerounion never had a reputation for shady maintenanc
45 JBirdAV8r: "No mention of thunderstorms..." Yikes...read a METAR lately? LTGIC=Lightning in cloud. CB=cumulonimbus. Just because a TS is not recorded at the fie
46 ghost77: Yeah, but Mexico doesn't has the airport infrastructure NOR the flat terrain and add to that high altitudes we have to fly and this is also a differe
47 etherealsky: Wow, how tragic - thoughts & prayers for all the families and those affected by this loss What a shame to see such a beautiful airplane lost as w
48 Oshkosh1: I'm not going to repeat what JBird wrote...As it was stated so well. As much as I enjoy reading posts here, I get annoyed at some of the obvious "back
49 XAAPB: Age is never and issue on a well maintain airframe. Greetings
50 N405MX: Some interesting info found today with some colleagues here at airport makes think in something very plausible, it's confirmed that the crew was tryin
51 Bennett123: IIRC, there was an issue with the early A300'S with delamination on the wing root fairing. Is structural failure a possibility.
52 AR385: To me, what does not make sense about this crash is the place where the wreckage ended up. As far as I know, most CFIT´s crashes happen on a displac
53 tom355uk: The A300 was the first airliner to be fitted with a windshear protection system, I think it is a Reactive system that will offer the aural 'WINDSHEAR
54 N405MX: Indeed, and add that there's almost no damage at the surroundings, several whitnesses point that the plane banked right and one of the engines was ma
55 ThePinnacleKid: YIKES... I probably read more METARS and TAFs than a lot of people on this board.. and I still say... No; thunderstorms were not mentioned in either
56 FlySSC: It is cn078, originally delivered to Air France as F-BVGM in May 1979 ... It operated also under the colors af Air Seychelles during two years (wet l
57 etherealsky: Unless you're playing the semantics game with the word "mentioned," it should go without saying that lightning (the LTGIC remark) is the direct cause
58 ThePinnacleKid: Hey Brandon.... Indeed I was playing the semantics game and technically speaking the LTGIC while LTG does equate to thunder... it actually does not m
59 etherealsky: That's a good point you bring up. I hadn't thought about it before, but I had a look in Aviation Weather Services (AC 00-45G) and this is what it say
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