As I mentioned just above, I've spent some time reading about something that fascinates me - aviation disasters. AKA, airplane crashes. I feel sad for the victims of the crashes and their families. I am intrigued by the how/why. How did a state-of-the-art aircraft crash? Why did it crash? Who, if anyone, caused it to crash?
This led me to a site, Aviation Safety Network, that has a page on it with the air traffic control (ATC) transcripts. Not to be confused with the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) the ATC transcripts only show the words spoken between ATC and the pilots. The CVR records all sounds in the cockpit.
On this page with the ATC recording transcripts, it also lists the cause of the crash. And there are some pretty odd ones! You have the usual (sorry to say it) mechanical failure, weather issue, pilot error... but then you get some that are not so "mundane." If I take a second and actually stop and think about how this occurred, I get a little confused. What were these pilots thinking?
Among the listed reasons:
- collision with trainer
- premature descent
- gear collapse on landing
- overran after aborted takeoff (V1 anybody?)
- wrong takeoff configuration
- loss of orientation in fog
- CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) in fog
- premature spoiler deployment
- descended into swamp (the wording on this one gets me...)
- mid-air collision (!!!!)
- double engine failure in hailstorm
- collision with Cessna (a 727.. pick on someone your own size!)
- CFIW (controlled flight into water)
- shoot down
- engine fire
- shot down by Russian fighter
- bomb explosion
- windshear
- loss of control after bulkhead failure (whatever that means..)
- collision with trees
- cargo door blew out
- fuel exhaustion (ran out of gas)
- loss of control after inflight thrust-reverser deployment (went into reverse in air)
- double engine failure after ice ingestion
- engine separation
- belly landing
- stalled on approach
- asymmetric power condition on go-around (equal power, guys...)
- prop-blade separation
- simulated engine failure on takeoff (if it was simulated what's the problem?)
- birdstrike on take off (the poor things...)
- struck barn on go-around in fog
- descent below glidepath
- cargo shift on takeoff
- dove into the ground (pilot suicide, sugar coated)
- overshot runway in poor weather
- loss of control, possibly pilot-induced (if you have to say it...)
- horizontal stabilizer failure
- takeoff from wrong runway (!!??)
- entered flatspin (lord have mercy! how scary!)
- hijacked and crashed
And those were just from 1962 to 2004! Imagine what it'll have to say about Asiana 214!
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