Originally Posted by
Centaurus
Makes you wonder in hindsight why the captain chose to depart in such severe weather knowing the aircraft was not fitted with weather radar.
Two of the points made in the summary by the Board of Inquiry into the accident were:
26) At the time of the failure of the starboard outer wing the aircraft was travelling at a speed in excess of 260 knots and at an appreciably higher speed when it struck the water.
(27) It is probable that action by the pilot to recover control of the aircraft during its rapid descent imposed a manoeuvre load on the aircraft which together with its speed and turbulence encountered, produced forces in the aircraft structure greater than it was designed to bear and which failed the starboard outer wing.
Very coincidently I picked up a copy of the ATSB Flight Safety magazine from 2012? a few days ago and read Macaurthur Job's account of that accident.
Part of his discussion was how that accident resulted in weather radar becoming required on turbine aircraft in Australia.
EDIT - found it!
https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20...146/fnov11.pdf
the article is "The Final Piece of the Puzzle" page 58