Ljubljana air crash 1966
some clips and news items
reading the flight international report 1968 it confirms all 3 cockpit ALT's were not set at the airfield QFE passed by the controller and the crew did not read back to him an acknowledgement of that QFE as was required in the UK.(?)
the graphs in the report below shows the QNH settings used and the obvious outcome not using QFE
no flight recorder was fitted back then
page 1
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarch...0-%201853.html
page 2
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarch...0-%201854.html
it was a VFR app (?)
they had the runway insight 12 miles out but had no other visual ground references apart from that...
with that in mind they (the crew) may have been (too?) comfortable with the fact that they had the runway insight ahead but with the QFE not correctly set to give them the correct height AGL they slipped under the runway height and undershot into the trees just over a mile out which they could not see in-front of them in the darkness.
Had the crew seemingly failed to cross-check altimeters?
one of the last radio transmissions from the Capt though was ''give us radar''
quote from a news report.
One of the air hostesses named as a survivor is Miss Joan
Chapman, of Harpenden in Hertfordshire. A second hostess, Miss
Joan Elizabeth Falla, was not on the list of survivors. Mr. Edward Heath,
the Opposition leader, sent his sympathies to her relatives -
she looked after Mr. Heath on his trip to south east Asia in January.
i remember studying the accident well although only a lad as Britannia's were very interesting to me as my first flights were on both British Eagle and Britannia Airways Britannia's since 1964 to go on my holidays.
our neighbours were waiting at the airport for this aircraft to board it to go home after their Universal Skytours holiday...their friends were on board the ill-fated flight and did not survive.
they just said they smelt smoke as they were outside on the terrace waiting but did not see or hear anything. i think they were sent home eventually by coaches to Venice then flown home from there.
A Britannia was sent out from LTN to LJU then next day with BY management and engineers on board.
Survivors were eventually flown home on a BY Brit to LTN.
there is a very interesting account of survivors and Britannia management from an ITN news (transcript only) of a news film but i cannot find the actual clip
'BRITANNIA' CRASH IN YUGOSLAVIA
actual typed notes of the newsroom transcript by an ITN reporter
http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/mediaConte..._LE_01_ITV.pdf
Pathe News clip of the crash site https://youtu.be/xcEW6hGIugI
ICAO crash report PDF download file summary page 124 onwards - other accidents summarised too -
mid.gov.kz/images/stories/contents/088_vol_2_en.pdf
the graphs in the report below shows the QNH settings used and the obvious outcome not using QFE
no flight recorder was fitted back then
page 1
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarch...0-%201853.html
page 2
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarch...0-%201854.html
it was a VFR app (?)
they had the runway insight 12 miles out but had no other visual ground references apart from that...
with that in mind they (the crew) may have been (too?) comfortable with the fact that they had the runway insight ahead but with the QFE not correctly set to give them the correct height AGL they slipped under the runway height and undershot into the trees just over a mile out which they could not see in-front of them in the darkness.
Had the crew seemingly failed to cross-check altimeters?
one of the last radio transmissions from the Capt though was ''give us radar''
quote from a news report.
One of the air hostesses named as a survivor is Miss Joan
Chapman, of Harpenden in Hertfordshire. A second hostess, Miss
Joan Elizabeth Falla, was not on the list of survivors. Mr. Edward Heath,
the Opposition leader, sent his sympathies to her relatives -
she looked after Mr. Heath on his trip to south east Asia in January.
i remember studying the accident well although only a lad as Britannia's were very interesting to me as my first flights were on both British Eagle and Britannia Airways Britannia's since 1964 to go on my holidays.
our neighbours were waiting at the airport for this aircraft to board it to go home after their Universal Skytours holiday...their friends were on board the ill-fated flight and did not survive.
they just said they smelt smoke as they were outside on the terrace waiting but did not see or hear anything. i think they were sent home eventually by coaches to Venice then flown home from there.
A Britannia was sent out from LTN to LJU then next day with BY management and engineers on board.
Survivors were eventually flown home on a BY Brit to LTN.
there is a very interesting account of survivors and Britannia management from an ITN news (transcript only) of a news film but i cannot find the actual clip
'BRITANNIA' CRASH IN YUGOSLAVIA
actual typed notes of the newsroom transcript by an ITN reporter
http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/mediaConte..._LE_01_ITV.pdf
Pathe News clip of the crash site https://youtu.be/xcEW6hGIugI
ICAO crash report PDF download file summary page 124 onwards - other accidents summarised too -
mid.gov.kz/images/stories/contents/088_vol_2_en.pdf
Last edited by rog747; 4th Aug 2017 at 10:15. Reason: file added
