Why not concentrate on facts?
I share the pain and suffering of those human lives lost in this accident, my sincere condolences to the family of the victims and friends.
If you think what is aviation nowadays, it has very few things to be invented compared to the Wright brothers? It resumes to a lot of rules legislated after many lives lost and after many accidents analyzed and causes being detected. We never had access to such amount of information and technology as today, but we cannot digest it and learn with.
Why, still accidents like these happen? Many causes for sure...
As the recovering process and identification will be concluded soon and
knowing, that in this part of the world an investigation might never be released, why not analyze the facts known on this accident and learn with them? After all we would like to know more... that is why we are here isn't?
Concerning this particular accident, anyone knows:
1. The exact location and altitude of the wreckage?
2. If there was an initial impact? If so, what were the coordinates
and altitude?
3. What was the area of the aircraft that touched the ground first?
4. Was the ELT deployed? Why?
5. Does it have CVR/FVR operational?
6. GPWS or equivalent operational?
7. What was the last complete metar provided?
8. Did they use home made approaches, since no star on Rwy17? What were the security fixes? Any or GPS straight in?
9. Altimeters, when it was last calibration done? When due? Where they both operational?
10. Does the altimeters from the wreckage indicate the pa setting? Does it matches with the QNH given by the twr?
11. Any recording from the twr when the last contact was made?
12. There are no TAF's at Bukavu, only Metar's?
13. Was this aircraft and crew, legally certified to perform a potential GNSS approach on Rwy35?
14. How much estimated fuel was on board at the time of the crash? Did they have the legal reserves? Or sufficient fob for a diversion?
15. What was the endurance reported at the time of take-off from Kisangani?
16. Did they have enough fuel to divert? If so to where?
17. What route they provided to the ATC departure aerodrome?
18. From the wreck. What did you noticed from the flap setting? Was the gear down?
19. Last HSI? Any problems detected?
20. Any snags reported? Where accepted by the MEL?
21. How many hours did the crew sleep before the flight?
22. Were they fit to fly that day? Or recovering from a heavy week-end?
23. Wx Radar was it operational?
Many questions will be associated to this accident, let's move on to facts???
Any answers?
LAS
Last edited by LAS67; 6th Sep 2008 at 09:17.