Flugunfall 01 DEC 1981 einer McDonnell Douglas DC-9-81 (MD-81) YU-ANA - Ajaccio-Campo dell'Oro Airport (AJA)
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Status:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Datum:Dienstag 1 Dezember 1981
Zeit:08:53
Flugzeugtyp:Silhouette image of generic MD81 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-81 (MD-81)
Fluggesellschaft:Inex-Adria Aviopromet
Kennzeichen: YU-ANA
Werknummer: 48047/998
Baujahr: 1981
Betriebsstunden:683
Triebwerk: 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-217
Besatzung:Todesopfer: 7 / Insassen: 7
Fluggäste:Todesopfer: 173 / Insassen: 173
Gesamt:Todesopfer: 180 / Insassen: 180
Sachschaden: Zerstört
Konsequenzen: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Unfallort:24 km (15 Meilen) SE of Ajaccio-Campo dell'Oro Airport (AJA) (   Frankreich)
Flugphase: Während des Fluges (ENR)
Betriebsart:Internationaler außerplanmäßiger Passagierflug
Flug von:Ljubljana-Brnik Airport (LJU/LJLJ), Slowenien
Flug nach:Ajaccio-Campo dell'Oro Airport (AJA/LFKJ), Frankreich
Flugnummer:JP1308
Unfallbericht:
A McDonnell Douglas DC-9-81 passenger jet, YU-ANA, was destroyed when it flew into the side of Mont San-Pietro, a 4477 feet high mountain on the French island of Corsica. All 173 passengers and seven crew members were killed.
Inex Adria flight 1308 was a charter service from Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) to Ajaccio, Corsica, France. The flight departed at 07:41 local time and climbed to the cruising altitude of FL330. The en route part of the flight was uneventful.
About 08:35, while descending to FL190, a the copilot's son entered the flight deck and was allowed to take the observers seat.
Further descent instructions and radar vectors were obtained and at 08:47 the flight transferred to the Ajaccio Approach controller. The controller cleared the flight to the AJO VOR at FL110 and to report when overhead the VOR. He also passed on weather information and the reported that runway 21 was the runway in use.
At 08:49 the crew reported over the AJO VOR. The controller cleared the flight to descend to 3300 feet on the 247 radial of the AJO VOR.
Three minutes later the flight radioed: "Rolling inbound out of six thousand". By that time the airplane had descended below the minimum holding altitude of 6800 feet for that area. He then reported: "Turning inbound to Ajaccio because at the moment we are in cloud." The controller then replied: "Roger, 1308, report Charlie Tango on final, surface wind two eight zero degrees, twenty knots." There was no response from flight 1308.
Flight 1308 was flying a holding pattern to lose altitude, but the controller believed the aircraft was going to make a direct descent to begin the final approach. Hence the reference to the Charlie Tango (CT) NDB beacon.
After several aural GPWS warnings (starting 13 seconds before impact) the crew increased engine thrust relatively slowly and pulled up too late. The left wing contact the top of Mont San-Pietro. Control was lost and the airplane crashed in mountainous terrain.

Probable Cause:

CAUSES (translated from original French language report):
1. The Committee considers that the cause of this accident was that the descent undertaken by the crew led the aircraft to find itself in clouds below the instruments safety altitude for that part of the flight path.
2. The Committee noted that when the crew, alerted by the GPWS, tried to regain altitude, the maneuver proved to be insufficient to overcome the effect of strong descending air currents due to relief and strong wind, present in the area where the aircraft was flying at that time.

OTHER FACTORS
The Commission further noted that the combination of the following factors contributed to the crew being put in a situation it could not overcome:

1. The committee felt that the crew did not show the necessary rigor when preparing its approach.
It does not appear that a logical order has guided the crew in the revision and memorization of various parameters, including the safe altitude and the maximum speed of the holding circuit, which in any case, did not catch the attention of the crew in an appropriate manner.
In addition, the presence of a young child on the observer seat cockpit, until the end of the flight was a dispersion factor of attention;

2. The misunderstandings which have developed in the exchange of messages between the captain and the approach controller could disrupt, at certain times, the working conditions of the crew. The controller consequently did not have an accurate representation of the progress of the aircraft in the performance of its procedure and, therefore, did not intervene when two messages "call you inbound on radial two forty seven", and then "rolling inbound out of six thousand" would have told him, if he had better interpreted them, an ambiguous situation for the first and abnormal and dangerous for the second;

3. The advice to the commission on vectoring habits and on habits supposedly used by some national air traffic services to systematically take into account the safety altitudes in formulating control permissions, leads to the suspicion that some crew have a slightest concern about the safe altitudes;

4. Airspeed of the aircraft was greater than the maximum speed of the holding pattern and crew did not adopt the correction factors adapted to altitude wind they had encountered during the previous segment th flight. This led to the airplane overfly an area where, although it is included in the protected area of the holding pattern, the upper air movements were particularly important;

5. The symbolic representation of the holding pattern on the approach chart used by the crew corresponds to a path, with no wind, and an aircraft which would have approximately 150 knots indicated airspeed. It calls not evident attention to Airmen on the actual dimensions of the actually travelled circuits in flight, nor therefore on altitude over the terrain reliefs.

Accident investigation:

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Investigating agency: BEA France
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 1 year and 8 months
Download report: Final report

Informationsquelle:
» Aviation Week & Space Technology 27.02.84(34)
» Flight International 12 December 1981 (1736)


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final flight path of JP1308
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accident date: 01-12-1981
type: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-81
registration: YU-ANA
 

Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Ljubljana-Brnik Airport to Ajaccio-Campo dell'Oro Airport as the crow flies is 653 km (408 miles).
Accident location: Exact; as reported in the official accident report.

This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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