Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901
Bad weather leading to pilot error | |
Site | Near Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | BAC One-Eleven 529FR |
Operator | Austral Líneas Aéreas |
Registration | LV-LOX |
Flight origin | Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport |
Destination | Buenos Aires Aeroparque Jorge Newbery |
Occupants | 31 |
Passengers | 26 |
Crew | 5 |
Fatalities | 31 |
Survivors | 0 |
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 901 was a scheduled
Accident sequence
Flight 901 had departed from
The weather conditions in Buenos Aires were awful, with heavy rain and winds. At 10:42, Flight 901 was cleared to land on
Shortly after, the crew lost control of the plane, and it crashed into a river. All 26 passengers and 5 crew on board were killed in the BAC 1-11.[3][4]
After losing contact with Flight 901, ships from the Prefectura Naval Argentina and the Argentine Navy began to search for the plane. At 2:40 p.m., more than three hours after the accident, a Prefectura helicopter was the first to sight the aircraft's wreckage. Rescuers headed there, hoping to find survivors, but their efforts were futile. The search and recovery of bodies took several days.
The Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Board was in charge of the investigation. Only a little more than half of the plane's wreckage was removed from the water. The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR), although intensively searched for 42 days, were never found.[1] The JIAAC investigation, due to the lack of the black boxes, could not determine with certainty the cause of the accident, although it concluded as probable cause the "loss of control of the aircraft and impact against the water due to an error of appreciation of the pilot when evaluating the meteorological conditions when crossing through the zone of influence of a cumulonimbus of extremely violent activity".[1]
Investigation
Investigations were hampered by the fact that only 55-65% of wreckage was recovered. Even after 42 days of searching, the
See also
References
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- ^ a b "ASN Aircraft accident BAC One-Eleven 529FR LV-LOX Buenos Aires-Jorge Newbery Airport, BA (AEP)". Aviation-safety.net. 1981-05-07. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
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