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Air Algérie Flight 702P
Air Algérie (Phoenix Aviation) Flight 702P, named ''Oasis'' and Aircraft registration, registered 7T-VEE, was a Boeing 737 owned by Air Algérie and leased by Phoenix Aviation. On 21 December 1994, in low visibility conditions, it collided with power transmission cables and a pylon during its final approach to Coventry Airport in the United Kingdom. The aircraft subsequently overturned and damaged several houses before crashing inverted into a wooded area beyond. All five people on board were killed. Accident The occupants consisted of 3 Algerian crew members and 2 English stock handlers. The captain of flight 702P was 44-year-old Ahmed Nemdil, he had accumulated 10,686 flight hours with 2,187 on the Boeing 737-200. The first officer, 35-year-old Nasreddine Hantour, had 2,858 hours of flying time with most of them on the B737-200. They were accompanied by an Air Algérie maintenance engineer, 38-year-old El-Hachemi Abdellaoui; and the two stock handlers were 31-year-old Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Controlled Flight Into Terrain
In aviation, a controlled flight into terrain (CFIT; usually ) is an aviation accidents and incidents, accident in which an airworthy aircraft, under aircraft pilot, pilot control, is unintentionally flown into the ground, a mountain, a body of water or an obstacle. In a typical CFIT scenario, the aircrew, crew is unaware of the impending disaster until it is too late. The term was coined by engineers at Boeing in the late 1970s. Accidents where the aircraft is out of control at the time of impact, because of mechanical failure or pilot error, are not considered CFIT (they are known as ''uncontrolled flight into terrain'' or ''UFIT''), nor are incidents resulting from the deliberate action of the person at the controls, such as acts of terrorism or suicide by pilot. According to Boeing in 1997, CFIT was a leading cause of airplane accidents involving the loss of life, causing over 9,000 deaths since the beginning of the commercial jet aircraft. CFIT was identified as a cause of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |