Crash of an AF Régional F100

airazurxtror · Post by **airazurxtror** » 25 Jan 2007, 17:05

A Fokker F-100 (F-GMPG) of Air France Régional crashed this morning at 1115 when taking off at Pau (flight AF7775 to CDG).
No casualty on board . But the aircraft hit a lorry and its driver was killed :
www.airfrance.net

galaxy · Post by **galaxy** » 25 Jan 2007, 20:48

The incident happened at the Pau-Pyrenees airport after a bird flew into the Regional Airlines plane's engine as it was taking off, forcing it to make an emergency landing.

The 50 passengers and four cabin staff on the Fokker 100 were not injured and were evacuated from the plane, which was flying for Air France between Pau and Paris' Roissy airport.

"The aircraft, which was taking off, had to carry out an emergency landing next to the runway after a bird flew into one of the engines," a statement from the ministry said.

The plane then hit the public works lorry travelling on a road around the airport and the driver died in the accident, it said. In a separate statement, Regional Airlines said a second person was in the vehicle and was injured.

The plane came to a stop several hundred metres later.

Congratulations to the pilots ability.

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/internatio ... 9747584000

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » 25 Jan 2007, 23:30

Isn't an aircraft supposed to keep on flying with one engine down? I thought once your plane leaves the runway you are forced to take of, even if an engine fails? Anyone has any insight on this?

world · Post by **world** » 26 Jan 2007, 03:09

I agree with you Buzz, the Fokker 100 should have continued flying straight ahead with the failed engine or stayed on the runway if the engine failed below the required decision speed.

Its difficult to comprehend why a death on the ground has unfortunantley occurred.

SN_Bigbirdy · Post by **SN_Bigbirdy** » 26 Jan 2007, 09:22

World,

afaik, one part of the landinggear hit fully the drivingcabin of the lorry (and broke off the plane). I saw a very short report yesterday on VRT and if you saw the remains of the lorry, the driver had to be very very very lucky to survive that kind of encouter, but hey, that is just my to cents...

grtz,
Simon

world · Post by **world** » 29 Jan 2007, 05:36

mr.Sn_Bigbirdy,i dont understand what you are talking about?
My point is,that after the engine failure, the Fokker 100 should have had the ability to continue to climb straight ahead with the one engine in-operative!
If the Fokker 100 had an engine failure before the decision speed,then the take-off would be aborted and the aircraft would remain on the runway!
I dont understand why the plane tried to land on another runway and hit the lorry?
It sounds that the flight crew didnt follow standard operating procedures!?

chunk · Post by **chunk** » 29 Jan 2007, 09:24

I think you shouldn;t speculate about anyone not applying operating procedures - unless of course you have read the data recorder transcrits or were in the cockpit.

No-one knows what happened yet.......

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 29 Jan 2007, 18:03

I saw the images on TF1 last week while I was in France.

Knowing the conditions during the crash I would rather suspect the de-icing procedure than a engine failure. However this is pure speculations.....

Chris

AVION1 · Post by **AVION1** » 29 Jan 2007, 18:17

Here a photo

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php? ... 681&nseq=0

airazurxtror · Post by **airazurxtror** » 03 Feb 2007, 17:30

According to a BEA press release of january 31st, the data of the flight recorder were read and are of good quality.
"During the flight phase, no loss of engine thrust was recorded"
So much for the bird ingestion hypothesis...
http://www.bea-fr.org/anglaise/actualite/actu.htm

airazurxtror · Post by **airazurxtror** » 20 Apr 2007, 10:29

A preliminary report has been issued by the BEA :
http://www.bea-fr.org/francais/actualite/actu.htm

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Crash of an AF Régional F100

Crash of an AF Régional F100

No loss of engine thrust