Flight Safety Information - September 2, 2022 No.169 In This Issue : Diamond DA42 NG Twin Star - Fatal Accident (Florida) : Cirrus SR22 G6 - Fatal Accident (Texas) : Dassault Falcon 20 - Double Engine Failure (Michigan) : United Airlines Boeing 777 Evacuated After Smoke Spotted In Cabin On The Runway : Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 Scrapes Tail Departing Istanbul : Global air travel last year: 22 million jet flights, just one fatal accident : Tips for student pilots to get to the checkride : 1 dead, another sent to the hospital after planes flip over at Orlando Executive Airport, authorities say : Wichita State to get $51 million to boost economic development in aircraft manufacturing : ALPA - 66th Air Safety Forum - September 12-15, 2022 - JOIN US! Diamond DA42 NG Twin Star - Fatal Accident (Florida) Date: 01-SEP-2022 Time: c. 17:00 Type: Diamond DA42 NG Twin Star Owner/operator: Diamond Aircraft Sales USA Inc Registration: N43RG MSN: 42.N455 Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 Other fatalities: 0 Aircraft damage: Substantial Location: Orlanda Executive Airport (ORL/KORL), Orlando, FL - United States of America Phase: Standing Nature: Private Departure airport: Orlando Executive Airport, FL (ORL/KORL) Destination airport: Narrative: A Diaond DA42 NG Twin Star sustained substantial damage subsequent to a microburst related upset from a storm passing over Executive Airport (ORL/KORL), Orlando, Florida. One occupant received fatal injuries and one of the two occupants onboard the twin engine airplane awaiting takeoff clearance was seriously injured. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/282312 Cirrus SR22 G6 - Fatal Accident (Texas) Date: 01-SEP-2022 Time: c. 17:10 Type: Cirrus SR22 G6 Owner/operator: Private Registration: N420SS MSN: 8750 Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 Other fatalities: 0 Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Category: Accident Location: N of David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH/KDWH), Houston, TX - United States of America Phase: Approach Nature: Private Departure airport: Monroe Regional Airport, LA (MLU/KMLU) Destination airport: Houston-David Wayne Hooks Airport, TX (DWH/KDWH) Investigating agency: NTSB Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources Narrative: A Cirrus SR22 G6 crashed during the approach into a mobile home north of David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH/KDWH), Houston, Texas. The three occupants were injured, one of them critically, and the aircraft was destroyed. One occupant died in hospital from the injuries sustained in the crash. The brand new aircraft had departed from the Cirrus Service Center at McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS/KTYS), Knoxville, Tennessee, earlier that day. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/282311 Dassault Falcon 20 - Double Engine Failure (Michigan) Date: 01-SEP-2022 Time: 15:46 EDT Type: Dassault Falcon 20 Owner/operator: Royal Air Freight Registration: N123RA MSN: 30 Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 Other fatalities: 0 Aircraft damage: Unknown Location: Mason, MI - United States of America Phase: En route Nature: Cargo Departure airport: Pontiac-Oakland County International Airport, MI (PTK/KPTK) Destination airport: Grand Island-Central Nebraska Regional Airport, NE (GRI/KGRI) Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources Narrative: Royal Air Freight flight RAX7, a Dassault Falcon 20, suffered a double engine failure during climb-out at 14,000'. The flight attempted to divert to Lansing Airport, MI, but later radioed that they would not be able to make the runway. The controller then suggested Mason Airport, MI (KTEW). The flight landed at Mason at 15:54. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/282317 United Airlines Boeing 777 Evacuated After Smoke Spotted In Cabin On The Runway The aircraft aborted takeoff and all passengers and crew were evacuated safely. A United Airlines flight at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport aborted takeoff and evacuated its passengers due to smoke in the cabin. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200, had accelerated to around 90 knots before rejecting takeoff. The investigation into the cause of the smoke is ongoing. United Airlines flight aborts due to cabin smoke On Friday morning, United Airlines flight UA 71 from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) was forced to reject takeoff at high speed after smoke was seen in the cabin. The flight, operated by a Boeing 777-200, was cleared for takeoff at around 09:50 local time, over 30 minutes later than its scheduled departure, and accelerated to 90 knots before aborting takeoff. Reports claim that light smoke formed in the cabin, forcing pilots to perform the emergency stop. Pilots acted quickly to reject takeoff after reaching around 90 knots. Fire and emergency services were called and arrived on the runway less than 10 minutes later. Crew then decided to conduct an evacuation, with 253 passengers and 13 crew safely exiting the plane. Passengers were then bussed back to the terminal and the affected aircraft returned to the apron. Two people on the flight were treated for smoke inhalation. Electrical short circuit suspected According to a report from NL Times, a spokesperson for the Kennemerland Security Region said, "it may have been caused by a small, electrical short circuit." Given the threat posed by smoke in the cabin, which could indicate a range of critical problems, if the aircraft did take off then it would have turned back around and performed an emergency landing. "Our maintenance team is currently inspecting the aircraft. We are making arrangements to get our customers to their final destination as soon as possible." Just a few days ago, Simple Flying reported on a similar incident involving smoke in the cabin, this time affecting an American Airlines Boeing 777 that diverted to Bermuda. UA Boeing 777-200 - N787UA The aircraft involved in this incident is a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 (registration: N787UA) that is over 25 years old. The plane has spent its entire service life at United after arriving in June 1997. N787UA recently spent over six months in storage at Victorville Airport (VCV) between November 2021 and May 2022 before re-entering service in June. Data from ch-aviation shows that the aircraft has clocked in over 100,000 flight hours. The aircraft remains on the ground at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. According to AeroInside, the Boeing 777 has been involved in a few incidents in the past decade. In September 2015, the plane suffered a mid-flight engine shutdown soon after takeoff from São Paulo, while a similar incident occurred a year earlier near San Francisco. https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-boeing-777-evacuated-smoke-cabin/ Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 Scrapes Tail Departing Istanbul Flight TK726 to Kathmandu returned to Istanbul following the incident. A Turkish Airlines aircraft was forced to return to Istanbul following a tail strike on departure. The Airbus A330-300 was operating flight TK726 from Istanbul Airport (IST) to Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM) in Kathmandu, Nepal. The aircraft (TC-JOG) circled over Northern Turkey for more than four hours to burn off fuel, before landing safely back on runway 35R at Istanbul Airport at around 00:40. A post-flight inspection identified minor damage to the underside of the aircraft’s tail, and the aircraft was subsequently grounded. A replacement Airbus A330-300, TC-JOB, was brought in to operate flight TK726, which later departed safely for Kathmandu with a delay of over six hours. The flight’s route and backtracking to Istanbul can be clearly seen on FlightRadar24.com: Flight TK726 circled above Northern Turkey for several hours before returning to Istanbul. Flight TK726 is a scheduled flight from Istanbul to Kathmandu. Turkish Airlines operates the flight three or four times per week, depending on the season, with its Airbus A330-300 aircraft. TK726 is scheduled to depart Istanbul at 20:20 and arrive in Kathmandu at 06:15 the following day. TC-JOG – a Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-300 According to ch-aviation.com, TC-JOG was delivered new to Turkish Airlines in April 2015, making the aircraft almost seven and a half years old. Turkish Airlines has a total of 37 Airbus A330-300s in its fleet, with each aircraft seating a total of 289 in a two-class configuration – 28 in business class and 261 in economy class. Turkish Airlines has 37 Airbus A330-300s in its fleet. Turkish Airlines flies its Airbus A330-300s on a wide variety of different routes worldwide. In the two days prior to flight TK726, the aircraft had operated flights between Istanbul and Barcelona (BCN), Bangkok (BKK), Berlin (BER), and Vienna (VIE). Since April 2019, when all scheduled commercial flights were moved across from Atatürk Airport, Turkish Airlines has been based at Istanbul Airport. Last year, Istanbul Airport served over 37 million passengers, making it the busiest airport in Europe. Twenty-six million of these passengers were traveling internationally, putting the airport in second place worldwide for international traffic, behind Dubai International Airport (DXB). Flight TK726 to Kathmandu Tuesday night’s tail strike is not the first time that flight TK726 has been involved in an incident. In March 2015, an Airbus A330-300 operating the same flight from Istanbul overshot the runway after landing amid dense fog in Kathmandu. Luckily, there were no fatalities among the 224 passengers and 11 crew members onboard, however the aircraft was subsequently written off due to the damage it had sustained. Flight TK726 departed Istanbul Airport on Tuesday night, bound for Kathmandu, Nepal. In what is so far shaping up to be a particularly unlucky week for the airline, another Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 made the news on Monday. Flight TK537 encountered severe turbulence on landing into Conakry, Guinea, resulting in five passengers being taken to hospital. https://simpleflying.com/turkish-airlines-airbus-a330-istanbul-tail-scrape/ Global air travel last year: 22 million jet flights, just one fatal accident How safe is air travel? Last year, when large commercial jets took off 21.6 million times throughout the world, there was just one fatal accident. Boeing’s comprehensive annual compilation of data about air accidents involving large Western-built jet airliners, released Tuesday, shows a decadeslong trend toward safer air travel. At the beginning of the jet age, in 1959, there were 40 fatal accidents per million flights. The accident rate fell rapidly and a decade ago was down to less than one fatal accident per million flights. Last year, it was less than 0.05 fatal accidents per million flights. In airlines operated by North American airlines, last year the fatal accident rate was zero. Past tragedies brought enhanced safety One cannot minimize the awful tragedy of a jet airliner crash. The two deadly crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs in 2018 and 2019 still lie heavy on the minds of many in the aviation world and among air travelers. Yet those accidents were exceptional. Fatal airliner crashes, common as recently as the 1960s, have been increasingly rare since the late 1990s. Measured by fatalities per total number of people carried, air travel is the safest form of mass transportation. The plunge in the aviation accident rates over decades is due to enormous technical and organizational advances: safer technology systems on planes, more efficient air traffic control, and thorough training of pilots and maintenance mechanics. Intensely detailed investigations into fatal accidents by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and its counterparts in other countries have produced significant safety improvements over the decades — and the recent MAX crashes have done so once again. Jim Hall, who was NTSB chair in the 1990s and oversaw investigations into the deadly 737 crashes in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Pittsburgh, recalls how those accidents resulted not only in Boeing fixing the rudder system implicated in the crashes but in pilots being trained in upset recovery maneuvers. Other accidents in that period led to changes in the way flight crews communicate with one another to ensure efficient teamwork in an emergency. Eventually airlines developed management protocols to systematically address safety risks at every level from the flight deck to the maintenance hangar to the pilot training schools and their mission control centers. After the MAX crashes, Boeing also committed to a formal Safety Management System throughout its enterprise. “Boeing is saying the right things,” Hall said. “Hopefully they are doing the right things.” He said the decline in regulatory oversight in the years before the MAX crashes — when Congress insisted on the Federal Aviation Administration delegating more and more of the risk assessments on new aircraft to Boeing itself — has been arrested by the MAX tragedies. “We lost our eye on aviation safety when Congress was deluded into the changes that brought the MAX crashes,” Hall said. “Anyone in aviation safety should have been embarrassed by the information that came out after those accidents.” Now, though, the Aviation subcommittees in Congress “have been all over the FAA to do its job,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll now see a continued trend of safer aviation,” Hall concluded. Rare and unusual Boeing’s data does not include accidents involving small private planes, small seaplanes, business jets or turboprop planes — such as those flown by Alaska Airlines subsidiary Horizon Air. Commercial jets manufactured in Russia and China are also excluded due to lack of operational data. The data set comprises flights by large jet airliners built largely by Bombardier, Embraer, Airbus and Boeing, and includes both passenger and cargo planes. In 2021, there were just over 28,500 such airplanes operating worldwide, of which just shy of 13,500 were Boeing jets. Globally, the only fatal airliner crash among them was the crash of a Boeing 737 “classic” airplane operated by Sriwijaya Air in Indonesia, in which 62 people died. That plane may have suffered an autothrottle malfunction. The final investigation report is expected imminently and may well lead to some corrective action by Boeing. The recent safety record of American and Canadian airlines is remarkable. In 2018, on a Southwest Airlines flight, metal shrapnel from an uncontained engine failure blew out a cabin window, killing one passenger. That was the only death in an accident on a passenger airliner operated by North American airlines in the past decade. There were a dozen deaths during the decade in crashes of cargo planes operated by American carriers. These included the 2013 crash of a 747 cargo jet operated by commercial freight charter carrier National Air Cargo that crashed carrying military supplies in Afghanistan, killing seven people. Overseas, the record is more blemished, with nearly 1,600 deaths from 27 scheduled passenger jet accidents in the past decade. That includes the 346 deaths from the MAX crashes, which were exceptional in that the two aircraft were almost new and took off in perfect flying weather. Most of the other overseas accidents in the past decade involved much older aircraft, often at small airlines with dubious safety records. The 1,600 global fatality total over 10 years includes the 239 people aboard the Malaysia Airlines 777 that disappeared in 2014 over the Indian Ocean — thought by many in the aviation world to be a pilot suicide. However, Boeing’s data set excludes the 289 people who died later that same year when Russian-backed forces shot down another Malaysia Airlines 777 flying over Ukraine. That was a deliberate military act, not an aviation accident. Similarly, it doesn’t include the 176 people killed on a Ukraine International Airlines 737 that Iranian forces shot down as it took off from Tehran in January 2020. At a moment of heightened military tension with the U.S., the Iranians mistook the jet for an incoming cruise missile. So far this year, there has been a single large jet transport fatal accident: In March, a China Eastern 737-800, the model before the MAX, crashed in the mountains of the Guangxi region, killing all 132 people aboard. The investigation of that accident has not been published, but The Wall Street Journal reported in May the preliminary conclusion of American investigators that this may have been a deliberate suicidal dive into the ground by one of the pilots. In the current unstable world, airliners are essentially so safe, especially in North America and Europe, that the risk of some malign action to bring down a plane may be greater than the risk of a fatal accident. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/global-air-travel-last-year-22-million-jet-flights-just-one-fatal-accident/ Tips for student pilots to get to the checkride Your first solo is complete and the euphoria of passing this first major milestone is beginning to ebb away, leaving the rest of the syllabus stretching out in front of you. After the celebration of flying an aircraft solo for the first time comes the return to study and practice to reach the ultimate goal, the private pilot certificate. How was that first solo anyway? Did you forget anything? Be honest with yourself as you relive the experience. The chances are that there are things you could have done better as you flew the pattern. Resolve to improve through practice with the aim of flying a circuit accurately and confidently so that the muscle memory for the downwind checks grows and that instinct often called “seat of the pants flying” is nurtured. This is not the time to rest on your laurels. This is the time to get back into the cockpit and consolidate your learning. Once the first solo is complete, you should have your flight instruction booked for the days and weeks that follow. It’s important to maintain the momentum and continuity of practice. This will lessen the number of hours you’ll need to earn your certificate, which will save you money in the long run. Your schedule and the weather in your area may limit your options, so plan carefully. If your week is taken up with work, then book those weekend slots well in advance. Ideally, you should fly more than once a week, so consider taking some time off work to complete these next stages. Fly solo again soon and practice the approaches in both normal and flap-less configurations. If the wind is not ideal at your airfield, good! Use this opportunity to hone your crosswind skills. Be Prepared You’re paying a lot of hard-earned money to learn to fly and it’s only fair that you receive good value for your cash. This will depend a great deal on the instructor, the school, and the aircraft, but it also depends on you. Some student pilots have the attitude that all they have to do is show up and the rest is the responsibility of the instructor. This attitude will slow progress. Student pilots need to plan and prepare. At the end of each lesson, after your instructor has given you a debrief, ask what you’ll be learning next time. Make a note of this and spend some time over the next few days reading and researching that particular lesson so that you can anticipate what you’ll be required to demonstrate when the time comes. Precision Flying We all know that practice makes perfect. Precision flying is not only satisfying for the pilot and impressive to watch, but it’s also safer. Have you ever heard the old saying “you should never let an airplane take you anywhere that your brain didn’t get to five minutes earlier?” This sums up the mental agility required by the pilot. Pilot in Command (PIC) means being in control of the aircraft, not the other way around. It means proactively flying and anticipating the next three tasks. Student pilots are sometimes a little bit in awe of their instructors, so they are sometimes reluctant to ask for extra time to practice. Don’t be. If you want to nail your landing so that you can put those wheels down on the numbers each time, then speak up and book time with the instructor and the airplane. There’s a tendency to tense up on the final approach. Time can seem to slow down and the grip on the yoke gets firmer and firmer until it becomes a white knuckle ride. But if you know what the aircraft is doing and why it’s reacting that way you will know what inputs and changes of power and attitude are required — and that only comes with practice. Ground School By the time you’ve reached the point in your training where you’re flying solo on cross-country flights, you should have a reasonable amount of understanding of the ground school subjects. If you’re behind on the book or online learning, get current. Don’t leave this until later. If you find any of the subjects difficult, then speak up and seek out extra help. Solo navigation exercises include preflight planning and the onus will be on you to make the required decisions. What’s the weather at your destination airfield? What’s the weather en route? What’s it like at your diversion airfield? By now you should be familiar with TAFs, METARs, weather reports, and forecasts. You should also have developed a confident amount of knowledge regarding the performance of your particular aircraft, its mechanical and electrical systems, and what to do if any of them malfunction during the flight. Master the Radio It’s not uncommon for student pilots to be nervous about making radio calls well into their training. They may be very able at flying the aircraft and navigating, but still feel anxious about transmitting messages and responding to those who sent to them. This may be due to differing personalities. For some student pilots, the idea of talking on the radio is a bit like public speaking, since you know a lot of other people will be listening to you. Consequently, you may be anxious about your performance and worried that you’ll be judged accordingly. These nerves may be worsened when the student is required to communicate with a busy tower where a stressed air traffic controller is hastily talking to one pilot after another. Confidence will develop in time but, once again, it’s planning and practice that nurture it. Check out some of the aviation websites that transmit live ATC feeds, such as LiveATC.net. Listen to the radio traffic in the comfort of your own home and respond to the ATC calls as if you were the pilot. Write down the runway numbers, wind direction, and other information when it is sent. Another possibility is the PlaneEnglish radio simulation app, created by two Purdue University graduates. The app’s many lessons guide users through simple and complicated interactions with air traffic control on every phase of flight from taxi out, to takeoff, to airspace entrance, to approaches, to taxi in. The PlaneEnglish app. Before you fly, memorize the transmissions required when changing radio frequencies and practice them out loud. Do the same for those when passing through a zone or requesting information. Practice Mayday and Pan-Pan calls as well. When you’re in the air, mentally rehearse the call before you transmit. Be ready to write down any relevant information in the response. Then repeat back to confirm your understanding as required. Be Prepared for Those Days There might be days when nothing seems to go right. It’s very common to reach a point where you just don’t get it. You might find yourself trying to master an aerial exercise like the stall and recovery from it or some mental arithmetic like the 1 in 60 rule. As you struggle, you may start to imagine you’re hearing irritation in the voice of your instructor as you try once again to complete the task. This might be a good time to take a step back for a short break of a few hours or perhaps a day or two, but no more — never forget the importance of momentum. But sometimes all a student pilot needs is a short rest and some relaxation. Then, on the next attempt, things seem to fit into place and what seemed impossible just a few days ago has been mastered. https://generalaviationnews.com/2022/09/01/tips-for-student-pilots-to-get-to-the-checkride/ 1 dead, another sent to the hospital after planes flip over at Orlando Executive Airport, authorities say One person died and another was injured after two airplanes flipped over at Orlando Executive Airport during a storm Thursday evening, authorities said. Orlando Fire Department crew members responded to a call about 5 p.m. regarding an aircraft emergency at Herndon Avenue, where a person was found dead at the scene and another was transported as a trauma alert to Orlando Regional Medical Center, spokesperson Jenny DeSantis said. Greater Orlando Aviation Authority spokeswoman Carolyn Fennell confirmed a twin-engine airplane was preparing for take off on the taxiway when strong winds from a thunderstorm turned it over resulting in a fatality and one person sustaining serious injuries. The other single-engine plane was parked when it turned over. No one was in the plane at the time, Fennell said. Orlando Executive Airport is a known aviation hub for private planes. Fennell said operations at the airport have resumed after being paused for a brief time. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating further. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-airplane-flips-over-orlando-executive-airport-20220901-ee6u73vdbjh2tgnidzh4muoieu-story.html Wichita State to get $51 million to boost economic development in aircraft manufacturing WASHINGTON Wichita State University will receive a $51.4 million grant for a program to increase aircraft manufacturing in the region over the next 20 years, the White House announced Friday. The grant money comes from a program written into the American Rescue Plan, a stimulus package intended to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, signed by President Joe Biden in March 2021. It included a competition — called the Build Back Better Regional Challenge — where programs could compete for grants from a $1 billion fund. Wichita State University — through the South Kansas Coalition — was one of the program’s 21 winners. The money will be used to adopt new manufacturing methods in the region to help build aircraft more efficiently. The proposal also asked for money to expand semi-conductor evaluation and testing, as lawmakers attempt to spur domestic production of semi-conductors. TOP VIDEOS × “As we invest and grow critical industries in the U.S., we want to create industry hubs in diverse communities across the country,” said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. “These grants will provide critical and historic funding directly to community coalitions to invest in new infrastructure, research and development, and workforce development programs while creating good-paying jobs, supporting workers, and prioritizing equity.” The program received a $500,000 grant in 2021 from the same source. In the proposal, the South Kansas Coalition said it wanted to transform the region’s manufacturing landscape from loosely organized suppliers to a system that would rival global manufacturers. Get unlimited digital access Subscribe now for just $2 for 2 months. CLAIM OFFER The money will also help construct a new building for the National Center for Aviation Training that will allow for research, professional development and training programs. It will also house a professional pilot program to help train more pilots. The announcement comes around two months before the mid-term election, where voters will decide whether to keep Democrats in control of Congress. While Republicans are expected to win control of the U.S. House, the Democrats recently passed several items on their legislative agenda. The publicity push around some of the funding from legislation early in Biden’s term comes as Democrats are trying to provide tangible examples of how their legislation affects Americans. https://www.kansas.com/news/business/aviation/article265188441.html#storylink=cpy 66th Air Safety Forum – Join Us! PERSEVERANCE THROUGH STRENGTH AND UNITY September 12 – September 15, 2022 | Omni Shoreham Hotel | Washington, DC safetyforum.alpa.org CONFIRMED KEYNOTES INCLUDE • Capt. Joe DePete – President, Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l • The Honorable Jennifer Homendy – Chair, National Transportation Safety Board • The Honorable David Pekoske – Acting Administrator, Transportation Security Administration • Mr. Nick Robinson, Director General Civil Aviation, Transport Canada • Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger – Former U.S. Ambassador to ICAO • Mr. Dieudonne Kazzembe, Aero Club Foundation Scholarship Recipient Agenda and registration information can be found at safetyforum.alpa.org THANK YOU, SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS! Sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are available. Email airsafetyforum@alpa.org for more information. Curt Lewis