Beja: Air Astana plane fell from 20 thousand for 5 thousand feet after depressurization.
Air Astana plane crashed 15 thousand feet in no time. There were two hours of maximum stress. They were 13.33 hours Sunday when the pilot repeated the international sign of emergency to the control tower.
No collection of instruments shortly after take off from Alverca, the pilot of Air Astana, Kazakhstan, I wanted to return to the airport or amarar in the river or at sea. But eventually go through the skies of Lisbon, Santarém and Évora to land, the third attempt, the Air Force base Beja.
It was the best possible outcome looking at the plane was “completely uncontrolled”, doing raise the level of risk.
What caused the aircraft to lose control of the instruments will still be determined, not least because it is a new device: He left the Embraer factory in São José dos Campos, Brazil, in December 2013. The Prevention Office and Accident Investigation Aircraft and Railway Accidents was one of many driven entities and has questioned the two pilots and four technicians who followed on board.
The six are in good health, but both drivers needed medical aid on Sunday, after landing: a Kazakh, of 36 year old, took to 17.30 hours of hospital, and an English, of 54 year old, We were up to 19 hours.
landing attempts
The first two attempts are in great track and the last track in the small (track 19). The plane reached the ground when, does not enter centered with the track and has landing on the right side hit the curb lane and causes havoc (see statements of Colonel Fernando Costa below). The plane could have won a different path and have come out of the track-and despenhava. Only after being in the ground made the alignment with the track.
PROTOCOLO BA11/TCB
First fires Primary Alarm System (SPA)- Tower Control / For the means of BA11. After fires Secondary Alarm System (SSA)- CDOS / For external means.
Chronology of the external relief
VOICES
Colonel Fernando Costa (Commander BA11): "There was slight damage to the lateral illumination of the track rails. It was reported by the pilot / commander of Air Astana, but I do not know the move that was made, because they saw. The damages are few relevant, compared to the severity of the incident and how it ended. It was the worst we had in BA11. If there was any moment that the plane could have fallen (question asked by me) ? That's a good question to ask the pilot / commander ".
Pedro Barahona (commander BVBeja): "It was received the alert INEM for the occurrence having as Meeting Point (destination) Civil Terminal or Beja (TCB), there is then a second information for repositioning the Air Base 11, with entrance for the unity of Arms Port. Why not crossed the TCB for BA11 ? Certainly for security reasons, but the Air Force know better respond. It was a rapid mobilization of external means. We tested all means in the year that had occurred three days before ".
Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Costa (Public relations of FAP): "For Security reasons, nothing and no one can cross the tracks, especially since the plane had not landed and how was unknown and which could land ".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
