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No warning before crash
The crew of the Norwegian Hercules planes that crashed on Kebnekaise death had absolutely no warning of the danger. They flew in clouds and aircraft systems cautioned not for a collision with the ground.
December 12, 2012 at 20:43, Updated: 12 december 2012 at 23:19
According to the new information on the crash on March 15 this year, when all five people on board were killed.
Already JAIC first findings at the site indicated that the plane flew too low and straight into the rock wall.
Had the plane been 70 feet higher had passed freely over the ridge.
In August there was the plane's so-called black boxes that contain recordings of crew conversations and technical records. The analysis of these now almost complete.
- There is no indication that the crew was aware of the danger. Nothing in the new information we have received contradicting it, says investigators Agne Widholm at the Swedish Accident Investigation Board to Svenska Dagbladet.
Hercules plane had both an advanced radar systems to warn of a collision with the ground. Prior to the passage of the massif, the systems are not tuned for that, but for the planned landing in Kiruna, shows the black box with the registrations.
- We have not found any technical errors and systems has not given any collision. It is technically complicated, but depending on how you use the system, you can get various alerts.
But there is no warning and no evasive action, says Agne Widholm.
The Norwegian Major General Morten Haga Lunde has previously led Hercules-dressing and self flown Hercules. He confirms to Svenska Dagbladet that it is possible to set the system board so that they do not warn of collision.
- The crew had no time to react, most likely, they have been in good faith. It is appalling. We hope in the final report to answer why the equipment did not give the warnings that might be expected, says Major General Lunde.
Both he and Agne Widholm participated Wednesday in a beautiful and touching ceremony in Kiruna then twelve mountain hunters got a medal for risking their own lives have searched for the plane.
The five fatalities were honored and 220 people participated in the rescue and relief work were thanked by the National Commissioner Bengt Svenson and Supreme Commander Sverker Goranson.
When the plane disappeared without a trace, it was a great räddningspådrag in time where the Home Guard Lapland Hunter, rescue, police and ortbefolkning included.
The crash had triggered an avalanche that covered the remains of the plane so that air reconnaissance was unsuccessful. The hurricane winds searched mountain hunters after crash site encountered another half day after the crash.
The five crew members were killed when the Norwegian Hercules plane crashed in the Kebnekaise massif March 15 was honored yesterday at a ceremony in Kiruna.
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