Air Algérie Flight 2208

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Air Algérie Flight 2208
Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
OperatorAir Algérie
ICAO flight No.DAH2208
Call signAIR ALGERIE 2208
Registration7T-VHG
Flight originHouari Boumediene Airport
DestinationFrankfurt Airport
Occupants3
Crew3
Fatalities3
Survivors0

Air Algérie Flight 2208 was a cargo flight between

Lockheed L-100 operating the flight crashed in Northern Italy
as a result of an autopilot malfunction. The aircraft struck the ground in a sparsely populated area after a very steep and rapid descent, narrowly avoiding crashing into a highly populated area. The crew of three on board were killed in the accident; there were no passengers, nor were there injuries or property damage on the ground.

Accident

The 25-year-old aircraft,

Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules, registration 7T-VHG, was operating a cargo service between Algiers-Houari Boumediene Airport and Frankfurt Airport as Flight 2208;[3] it was flying over Italian soil at 24,000 feet (7,300 m) when it began descending for unknown reasons.[4] The pilot had informed that there was an engine loss of power prior to losing contact with the Milan air traffic control while the aircraft was flying at 13,500 feet (4,100 m).[4][5]

The pilot was able to direct the aircraft's descent towards a sparsely populated area.

elevator were found 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) and 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) ahead of the impact point, respectively.[9]

The aircraft narrowly avoided crashing into highly populated areas, to the extent that the mayor of Piacenza referred to the occurrence as a miracle.[10] There were neither injuries nor property damage on the ground,[8] but the crew of three on board lost their lives in the accident.[11]

Investigation

The

cruising altitude with the autopilot engaged, that it got disengaged twelve seconds after the autopilot failure light lit, and that both directional and longitudinal control was lost moments later, with the aircraft crashing 73 seconds after the light came on. The angle and the speed of the impact were estimated to be between 45° and 50° and in the range of 460 to 485 knots (852 to 898 km/h; 529 to 558 mph), respectively.[9]

Aftermath

Given that the aircraft flight data recorder (FDR) was a first generation one manufactured in the 1960s, it was not in compliance with ICAO regulations.[nb 1] The ANSV urged the Algerian Civil Aviation Authority to replace older FDRs with newest ones.[14]

See also

Footnotes

Notes

  1. ^ More specifically, ICAO Annex 6[13] requirements were not met.

References

  1. ^ https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20060813-0 ASN classifies it as a loss of control after the instrument failure, retrieved 9 January 2019
  2. Flightglobal. 13 October 2006. Archived
    from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  3. Aviation Safety Network
    . Retrieved on 16 January 2013.
  4. ^
    Flightglobal. Flight International. Archived
    from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  5. ^
    Flightglobal. Flight International. Archived
    from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  6. AllAfrica.com. La Tribune. Archived
    from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  7. Flightglobal. 24 October 2006. Archived
    from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  8. ^ a b "Piacenza: cade un aereo cargo algerino" [Piacenza: an Algerian freighter goes down] (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 14 August 2006. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  9. ^
    Flightglobal. Flight International. Archived
    from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  10. ^ Lachichi, Mohamed-Chérif (15 August 2006). "Crash d'un avion d'Air Algérie en Italie" [Crash of an Air Algérie aircraft in Italy] (in French). Algérie Actualité. La voix de l’oranie. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  11. ^ "Crash data recovered by Italians". Flight International. 12 September 2006. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  12. Flightglobal. Flight International. Archived
    from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  13. ^ "ICAO Annex 6" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  14. Flightglobal. Archived
    from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2013.


External links

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