B1900 in Charlotte abgestürzt

[FrankM]

Oh je ...

 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/01/08/pla...rash/index.html

[sk]

Merkwürdig?!?

 

Wie kann ein Flugzeug beim Start gegen einen Hangar geraten?!? Hat jemand eine Karte des Flughafens?!?

[Tu204]

Wohl aus niedriger Flughöhe nach dem Abheben und nicht noch auf dem Boden.

 

>Zeugen berichten, die Maschine sei ins

>Trudeln geraten und rammte dann gegen den

> riesigen Hangar.

 

Q: spiegel.de

[FrankM]

Vielleicht Triebwerksausfall nach dem Abheben

[Zulu]

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — A commuter plane crashed into an airport hangar in Charlotte, North Carolina, moments after takeoff. A witness at the scene said US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashed upside down and initial accounts indicated that none of the 21 people on board survived the crash, which spread debris and ignited a fire. Two others were missing.

 

 

WCNC-TV

The twin-engine Beechcraft 1900, with 19 passengers and two crew members on board, was departing Charlotte-Douglas International Airport at 8:45 AM this morning when it banked to the left and slammed into the ground near the hangar, according to a witness.

 

The chairman of the plane's parent company, Mesa Airlines, said there were 19 passengers and two crew members aboard. "Our understanding is that the accident occurred on takeoff and that all aboard the aircraft perished," said Jonathan Ornstein.

 

The crash spread debris and ignited a fire that scorched the side of a US Airways hangar and spread to a nearby construction site.

 

Charlotte police said that there were no survivors from the plane, which the Federal Aviation Administration said was bound for Greenville-Spartanburg airport in Greer, S.C., and that two workers were missing in the wake of the crash.

 

"The plane is so destroyed there’s not much to see," police spokesman Keith Bridges told MSNBC-TV.

 

"There are no immediate survivors to this plane crash," said Fire Dept. Capt. Rob Brisley. He said the crash resulted in a fire that was quickly extinguished by his crews.

 

Conditions were clear, cold and windy at the time of the crash, with visibility of more than 10 miles. But there were some regional reports of low-level wind shear, a condition in which winds rapidly change direction, according to MSNBC-TV.

 

The airport scheduled a news conference to discuss the accident.

 

The US Airways flight was operated by commuter airline Air Midwest. Major U.S. operators often have contract agreements with small, regional airlines to operate low-capacity aircraft in their route network, which operate as the major airline's flights.

 

A database search found no fatal accidents involving the airline Air Midwest since 1969.

 

Air Midwest is owned by Mesa Air Group, which operates most of the US Airways commuter route network.

 

US Airways, a major U.S. airline, has not seen a fatal accident since 1994, when a Boeing 737 crashed near Pittsburgh due to mechanical problems, killing all 132 on board.

 

US Airways established a special toll-free telephone number — 1-800-679-8215 — to call for information about those on board Flight 5481.

 

The Beechcraft 1900 aircraft is a twin-engine commuter plane. The Beech 1900 has been involved in six fatal accidents since 1990.

 

The last U.S. commercial airline accident involving a Beechcraft 1900 was in 1996, when a United Airlines Express plane collided with a small private plane on the airport tarmac in Quincy, Illinois, killing all 14 people on board both planes.

 

Mesa Air Group said the plane, one of about 50 Beechcraft 1900s in its fleet, was 8 years old and had been flown 15,000 hours and undergone 21,000 takeoffs and landings.

 

The crash was the first fatal commercial air accident in the United States in more than a year.

[fv154]

Autsch!

[Jörg]

...das wird wohl wieder dem Image der TurboProps schaden!!

Wenn man sich mal so umhört was die Leute dazu sagen, "In sone Kiste würd ich eh nicht steigen". Das sind alle die, die keine Ahnung haben!

[DUS-Fan]

Ja, meine Mutter ist genauso eine!

Als ich ihr gesagt habe, dass ich bald mit einem Flugschüler mit einer Piper28 quer durch Deutschland fliegen werde (Jörg du willst ja auch mit, aber nur hinten sitzen )sagte die, "oh nein, da lass ich dich nicht mit fliegen"!

 

Hoffentlich macht die keine Probleme, denn wer lässt es sich schon entgehen, kostenlos mit eine Piper28 quer durch Deutschland zu fliegen?

 

Genauso überreagieren tut die im Flugzeug bei Turbolenzen. Die Maschine muss nur einmal wackeln, und schon ist die kurz vor einem Nervenzusammenbruch

[Gast]

Die technische Überprüfung aller Beech 1900 bei Air Midwest hat keinerlei Auffälligkeiten ergeben.

 

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2003/01/1042457158.html

 

Damit ist die Absturzursache weiterhin unklar. Die Auswertung des Flight Data Recorders ergab bisher, daß das Flugzeug mit einem "abnormalen" Winkel stieg. Daraufhin vermutete man einen Fehler im Elevator-System.