As published on local press
http://www.surinenglish.com/gnews.html#19
Copilot on Melilla flight stopped wrong engine
Examination of the black box from the Binter plane which plummeted to the ground just short of Malaga airport in August last year, killing four people and injuring 26, shows that immediately before the crash the pilot was recorded saying “What’s going on? Which engine have you cut? ****! Which engine have you cut? You’ve cut them both! Oh my God!” These were the last words of Mariano Hernández Ruano, who was one of the victims when the plane hit the ground, gouging out a track 100 metres long before coming to rest with its nose on the N340.
The copilot of the CN-235 plane, Luis Checa, stated at the time that neither of the men had shut down the engine which was still functioning. However this week the lawyer Manuel Temboury, acting in the private case being brought against Binter, said that human error was the cause of the accident after a fire alert. “The preliminary reports show that in fact there wasn’t a fire in the left engine but there was a fault in the fire warning system, which went off although there was no fire”. He explained that in the event of a fire alert, the engine affected is immediately shut down and then a lever mechanism is used to activate an extinguisher to prevent the fire reaching the fuel. From the recorded conversation Temboury deduces that instead of activating the extinguisher in the left engine, the copilot released the liquid in the right engine, effectively leaving the plane without power.
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