Investigators to release initial Superjet accident analysis
June 06, 2019
Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee has managed to reconstruct the flight of the Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 destroyed in a fatal fire at Moscow Sheremetyevo, as it prepares to release a preliminary analysis of the accident.
One month after the 5 May event the committee states that it has studied the wreckage, analysed flight recorders, decoded airborne and ground-based monitoring information, and examined images captured by surveillance video cameras. It says a "complete flight reconstruction" has been presented to the Russian ministry of transport following synchronisation of cockpit-voice recordings and air-ground communications with Moscow air traffic services. Investigation of the accident has already proven a sensitive and contentious matter, with Aeroflot having publicly rebuked senior government figures for making comments before the completion of the inquiry.
Storm-hit Iranian ATR's captain ignored diversion advice
June 05, 2019
Iranian investigators have disclosed that the captain of an an ATR 72-500 ignored repeated suggestions from the first officer not to proceed with a landing at Tehran during a storm, before the aircraft sustained damage during the touchdown. The Iran Aseman Airlines aircraft has conducted an unstable approach in the adverse weather, with high levels of acceleration, says the Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation, citing flight-data recorder information. It states that the aircraft, arriving from Rasht on the 11th of June 2018, was travelling at 168kt below 2,000ft despite a limitation of 145kt and, as it passed through 850ft, it was descending at more than 1,000ft/min. The crew received glideslope warnings as well as a ground-proximity warning at 810ft. Upon touchdown the aircraft bounced four times with a maximum impact of over 1.9g. But the inquiry says the captain demonstrated no situational awareness regarding information from other flights and Tehran Mehrabad airport controllers, and relied instead on his visual interpretation of the weather. None of the 68 occupants were injured, however the ATR sustained damage to its nose-wheels, and components including probes, windows, and static dischargers.
One-time checks ordered for Superjet fleet
June 05, 2019
Russian authorities have ordered carriers to conduct a one-time inspection of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 fleet, after the fatal Aeroflot accident at Moscow Sheremetyevo last month. Federal air transport regulator, Rosaviatsia says the work must be conducted "within the shortest possible time", and that findings must be directed to the authority's airworthiness management department. The work covers items which includes as a general check of the aircraft's condition, as well as examination of aircraft and engine logs to check performance of maintenance tasks and implementation of service bulletins. Investigators are still investigating the accident that occurred on May 5th in which a Superjet 100 suffered a hard landing, after returning to Sheremetyevo with degraded flight controls, and caught fire. Rosaviatsia says that the deadline for the review certificate is on the 25th of June.