Airbus about cargo airplane crash to Aero Union flight 302

(WAPA) - Airbus regrets to confirm that an A-300B4 Freighter airplane operated by Aero Union was involved in an accident shortly later than 23.30hrs local time on April 13th, 2010, (04.30hrs GMT, April 14th) while on move toward to Monterrey in Northern Mexico. The airplane was operating a scheduled freighter service, flight number 302, from Mexico City to Monterrey.

According to information from Aero Union, there were five crew members on slat. There is no information regarding survivors.

The aircraft involved in the mishap, registration XA-TUE, MSN (Manufacturer Serial Number) 078, was first delivered as a passenger aircraft from the making line in May 1979. The aircraft was converted into a freighter in 1998 and has been operated by Aero Union since June 2002. The aircraft had accumulated around 55,200 flight hours and 27,600 flight cycles. This aircraft was motorized by GE engines.

In line with global convention, Airbus will provide full technical support to the French BEA (Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses) and to the Mexican authorities, who are accountable for the investigation into the accident. A group of specialists from Airbus is being dispatched to Mexico.

The A-300 is a twin-engine wide-body airplane. The first A-300 entered service in May 1974 and the -B4 alternative in May 1975. In total, some 560 A-300 aircraft have been delivered, and to date the complete fleet has accumulated over 20.2 million flight hours in some 11.5 million flights.

The concern and sympathies of the Airbus employees go to the families, friends and loved ones affected by the mishap of Aero Union Cargo Flight 302. (Avionews)

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Airline accidents declined last year

Airlines may be in the doldrums, but one statistic is at least reason for rejoicing: accidents were down internationally last year to the second-lowest level in aviation history.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said yesterday the 2009 rate for accidents - defined as serious sufficient to write off the aircraft - was 0.71. This means that for all million flights, the accident rate was 0.71, or one accident per 1.4 million flights universal.

This is a important improvement of the 0.81 rate recorded in 2008 (one mishap for 1.2 million flights), IATA said. The 2009 rate was the second-lowest in aviation history, just over the 2006 rate of 0.65. Compared with 10 years ago, the mishap rate has been cut 36 percent from the rate recorded in 2000.

Steve Lott, representative for IATA North America, said from Washington, D.C., the figures take into account Western-built jets, which account for the huge majority of flights outside of Russia and China.

In those two countries, a navy of Ilyushin, Tupolev and other non-Western passenger planes still fly many routes. The rate for Eastern-built planes - including turboprops - is considerably higher, though it also dropped last year to 10.08 from 12.11 in 2008.

Lott cautioned that flights on Eastern-built planes account for merely 2.2 per cent of the world's total flights, so their rate goes up quickly when there is an accident.

Not all accidents engross fatalities, he noted. For example, a British Airways Boeing 777 crashed on landing at London Heathrow in 2008, but was close adequate to the ground that despite the plane being a total loss, no single died.

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Work had not been done on crash plane

The Air Accidents inquiry Branch in the UK has revealed safety maintenance work was not completed on a airplane whose nose landing gear collapsed as it touched down at London City Airport.



The occurrence, on 13th February 2009, involved a British Airways Avro 146 jet, carrying 67 passengers, which landed with a exhaustion crack in its landing gear.



The gear, which cracked on touchdown, had been in for security improvements which had been left incomplete, even though records at the American preservation firm where the work was carried out showed a end tick.



The Air plane Accidents Investigation Branch also found that the nose-gear on the airplane collapsed and penetrated the fuselage on landing.



British Airways has guaranteed passengers that maintenance has been tightened since the collide.

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Ethiopian jet's black box found

Search teams retrieved a flight recorder belonging to an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon previous month killing all 90 people aboard, the Lebanese Transport priest said.

A safety official earlier said that Lebanese navy commandos had recovered the black boxes, which were transported to Beirut's naval base and handed to the investigating squad.

Minister Ghazi Aridi afterward said the search teams found just one data recorder and they were looking for the second.

The priority currently is searching for the rest of the bodies of victims, Aridi said.

The Boeing 737-800 airplane, carrying mostly Lebanese and Ethiopian passengers, crashed minutes after taking off from Beirut in stormy climate, plunging in a ball of fire into the ocean. It was jump for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

The flight recorders should provide a clearer picture on why the pilot failed to react to the control tower's request to change direction even though he acknowledged their instructions.

The airplane had apparently made a sharp turn before dying off the radar. Lebanese officials have said it was too premature to draw any conclusion of pilot error.

Lebanese and international teams, including a US fleet vessel, have been searching the Mediterranean along the southern Beirut shore for bodies and wreckage.

They have managed to get back the plane's rear wings and the cockpit in the last 24 hours.

Stormy climate has hampered their search several times in the final two weeks. At least 15 bodies have been recovered since the collide, mostly of Lebanese passengers.

The eight-year-old plane last had a preservation check on December 25, which found no scientific problems.

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Buffalo air crash likely pilot error: investigators

Pilot error was the possible cause of an airline crash into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., last year, but the accident's root problems extend far beyond a single occasion, a federal protection panel said Tuesday.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board, Deborah Hersman, said the accident casts doubt on whether or not regional airlines are held to the similar level of safety as are major airlines, and she promised the board will chase the issue.

She also criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for taking too long to address security problems raised by the crash, saying the similar issues have turned up before.

Today is Groundhog Day, and I feel like we are in that movie, Hersman said, referring to the 1993 Bill Murray movie about a Pittsburgh weatherman who frequently lives through the similar day.

We have complete recommendations time after time after time. They haven't been heeded by the FAA.

The FAA said in a statement that it has driven important improvements in pilot professionalism, training and backdrop checks in the past year. The agency said it will soon propose new rules to prevent pilot exhaustion, further improve training and augment the qualifications required to be an airline pilot.

The three-member board agreed unanimously that an unsuitable response by the captain of Continental Connection Flight 3407 to a key piece of safety gear caused the crash. The board also said an wrong airspeed entered into the plane's computers by the flight's first officer and the air carrier's inadequate procedures and training for entering airspeeds for freezing weather were causal factors.

The board discussed issuing more than 20 protection recommendations as a result of the accident.

Hersman praised FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt for initiating rule changes in response to the collide on Feb.

12, 2009, when the plane dove into a house, killing all 49 people aboard and one man in the house. But Hersman said Babbitt has been not capable so far to push reforms across the finish line and that congressional deed may be needed.

Flight 3407, operated for Continental Airlines by Colgan Air Inc., was forthcoming Buffalo-Niagara International Airport when the twin-engine Bombardier turboprop skilled an aerodynamic stalls and went into a dive. The board said Capt. Marvin Renslow should have been capable to recover from the stall but that he did the opposite of what he should have done.

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Blame disputed as Concorde collide trial opens

PARIS -- Was an abandoned scrap of metal on the runway actually the main culprit in the fiery air crash of an Air France Concorde shortly after takeoff?

That finding, insisted upon by French investigators for a decade, will be scrutinized and debated in a long-awaited trial starting Tuesday. Prosecutors quarrel that the supersonic passenger jet not at all would have crashed in July 2000 - killing 113 - if a Continental Airlines DC-10 hadn't dropped a piece of titanium onto the Charles de Gaulle airport runway just minutes earlier than the Concorde soared into the summer sky.

Continental lawyer Olivier Metzner says the American airline is merely a convenient scapegoat. He will dispute that a fire broke out on the Concorde eight seconds before it even reached the titanium strip, he says.

The case marks the only collide ever of a Concorde, an air accident that brought heartache and disgrace to a nation proud of its aviation marvel, a jet that could fly crossways the Atlantic in half the time of other airliners.

The trial is expected to last four months as the court in Pontoise, north of Paris, tries to pin down who should be held unlawfully responsible for the crash, which killed 109 people on the airplane, mostly German tourists, and four people on the land.

Houston-headquartered Continental Airlines, Inc. and two of its U.S. employees are on test for manslaughter. Both aviation and judicial investigators have said the metal strip on the runway was the primary reason of the accident.

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Erebus tragedy etched onto Kiwi psyche

Three decades before this week, New Zealand was a mass of tears.

The country suffered its most horrible air tragedy ever when, on November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand plane on a tourism flight over Antarctica slammed into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 on board.

The DC10 ploughed into the snow-covered slopes in whiteout conditions that made even the 3,600m ton invisible.

Toll-wise, it was numerous notches above Australia's worst air crash, a US plane that went down at Bakers Creek, northern Queensland in June 1943, killing 40 soldiers.

And given New Zealand's 1970s inhabitants of just three million, it's not astonishing almost each one knew someone who was on the Erebus flight, or at least knew someone who knew someone on the doomed jet.

Two hundred Kiwis, 24 Japanese, 22 Americans, six Britons, two Canadians, one Australian, one French and one Swiss were departed.

The national grieving was overwhelming but the tremendous sadness was soon replaced with bitter anger as the country's nationwide carrier fumbled in its dealings with victims and the public.

No counselling was offered and Air New Zealand was quick to responsibility its pilot Jim Collins and his squad even though it was soon revealed they weren't at fault.

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A Bedford Hills, N.Y., man whose company provides digital steering equipment used by both pilots and mariners was killed Sunday afternoon when his Danbury-bound airplane crashed while trying to make an crisis landing in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.

Amir Tirosh, 52, proprietor of AirGator Inc., based in Mount Kisco, N.Y., was at the controls of a single-engine Piper Cherokee that took off from Orange region Airport in Montgomery, N.Y., just before 1:15 p.m. en route to Danbury Municipal Airport.

About halfway into the 50-mile air travel, Tirosh reported oil-pressure problems and was diverted to the Dutchess County Airport. The plane crashed in the woods about four miles southwest of the airstrip.

Tirosh was killed and his traveler, Daniel Bisk, 53, of Pleasantville, was gravely injured.
The airplane came down about 1:30 p.m., according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters.

FAA workers were at the scene, along with deputies from the Dutchess region Sheriff’s office.

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