West Air Sweden Flight PT294 CRJ-200 Crash

[geert]

According to FR24 on Twitter, and a swedish news-site, a West Air Sweden CRJ-200 (SE-DUX, FR24 image) has crashed in the northern part of Sweden.

No report of casualties yet.

Hope for the best.

Geert.

[geert]

It appears to be a flight from Oslo to Tromso. Norwegian F-16's have located the crash-site. It's on the Swedish side of the border.

[Stratofreighter]

...no hope for survivors...

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/nor ... -nodsignal
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https://translate.google.com/translate? ... edit-text=

[hammarö]

The aircraft reported mayday and suddenly disappeared.
The aircraft were on way London-Gardemoen-Tromsö with post with 2 persons.
The aircraft flew mostly over Norway close to the Norway-Sweden border.
The crash site is west of Abisko over Swedish territory close to Norwegian border.
Two F-16 with recce equipment localized the aircraft 03.10.
Two Norwegian and two Swedish search and rescue helicopters were also send out.
Around 08.00 Swedish sea security station in Gothenburg reported the two pilots dead.
The aircraft crashed on ground.
It is very cold on place (-30 to -40) and were is no roads near.
A security team from police and fjäll räddningen (mountain security) is send out.
Were is four hours day light in area (10 to 14).

[hammarö]

The crash site is east of the lake Akkasaure maybee 200 km southwest of Abisko close to Norwegian border.

There is only fragments left of the aircraft reported www.expressen.se.

The pilots is of south European origin.

The first mayday send out 11.30.

A press conference is planned around 11.00 by the West Atlantic from Gothenburg.

[Stratofreighter]

Photos of the crashsite at
http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/nor ... r-i-backen
by way of
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5728 ... weden.html .

A rather peculiar accident. A brief Mayday call was sent, though....



...thru
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/statu ... 5111638016

[Stratofreighter]

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4920a18a&opt=0

On Jan 12th 2016 the SHK told The Aviation Herald that the distress call just contained the repeated words "Mayday",
there was no further information in the call.

On Jan 26th 2016 the SHK reported that the investigation managed to read out
both cockpit voice and flight data recorder,
the CVR does contain the talks of the crew during the accident flight.

The investigation is currently analysing and validating the recordings.

A preliminary report is estimated to be released in a week or two.

[Stratofreighter]

http://www.havkom.se/assets/reports/SRL-2016_01e.pdf
has an interim report as of 9 March 2016.

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5728 ... den-9.html
shows the recordings of the FDR.
Things happened rather quickly suddenly...

Also see
http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4920a18a&opt=0

[Stratofreighter]

http://news.aviation-safety.net/2016/03 ... -accident/
is quite readable...

[Latchman]

West Air Sweden Flight 294 - final report out for review.

[Latchman]

http://www.havkom.se/assets/reports/RL-2016_11e.pdfh)

Possibly a contradiction?-see below.


"The aeroplane was aerodynamically and structurally intact at least until VD and MD was exceeded"

"No evidence of an in-flight break-up has been found"

[Numbercruncher]

http://www.havkom.se/assets/reports/RL-2016_11e.pdfh)

Possibly a contradiction?-see below.

"The aeroplane was aerodynamically and structurally intact at least until VD and MD was exceeded"

"No evidence of an in-flight break-up has been found"

Not sure what you mean by a contradiction.

During the dive down, the maximum allowable speed was exceeded thereby posing a risk to structural integrity. There is however no evidence that any breakup did occur during the descent. In any case no aerodynamic or structural failure was cause for this crash.

Basically this aircraft was doing fine, but a (single) computer broke down, showing the pilot (flying) erroneous values, upon which he acted, pushing the aircraft firmly down. By doing so he started the descent that the copilot then perceived as the emergency. The crew never realised that they were not seeing the same values, nor that the computer was faulty.

So causal factors for the crash are:
*A computer malfunction
*The crew not being aware of the computer malfunction (message stating so was missed)
*A breakdown in communications between the crew members (if they would have discussed their respective readings, it would have been likely that they would have deducted the computer was showing faulty values in time)

A rather sad story.

Grtz,

Robert W