Incidents Log

[Aviador]

This thread is to log details of incidents at Southampton airport. The http://www.avherald.com is an ideal reference point if people want to the thread.


[textarea]Report blames ‘human error’ after door falls from plane

A report into an incident at Southampton Airport in which an engine door fell from a Flybe plane and damaged its wing during take-off, found human error was to blame. The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) found when they recovered the door two of the latches were fully open.

A pilot sitting in a parked aircraft saw the panel thrown upward from the plane as it left Southampton Airport. He reported this to air traffic control, who passed the information to the flight crew. They advised the crew that a panel and some other debris had been found on the airfield and the captain decided to return to Southampton where the aircraft landed without further incident.

The report said ‘evidence suggested’ the door on the Dash 8 plane had not been properly shut after maintenance work. Flybe have since launched a safety campaign for aircrew, engineering and ground staff. None of the 40 passengers was injured in the incident on April 22.

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[Jon Dempsey]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-33040634


But if this blocked a pitot tube, it could cause major fault with the instruments!!

 

[jfy1999]

That actually happened once. Birgenair flight 301, operated by a 757-200, crashed into the sea following instrument malfunction shortly after takeoff from Puerto Plata on 6 February 1996. All 189 on board were killed.

The cause of the malfunction, which confused the pilots so much that they lost control, was believed to have been a mud dauber wasp, which are common in that area, that had built a nest inside one of the pitot tubes. The 757 had been parked up for several days without covers fitted to its pitot tubes.