Accident
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | Schlussbericht |
| Datum: | 18 JAN 1990 |
| Zeit: | 19:04 EST |
| Flugzeugtyp: | Boeing 727-225 |
| Fluggesellschaft: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Kennzeichen: | N8867E |
| Werknummer: | 20823/994 |
| Baujahr: | 1973-11-28 (16 years 2 months) |
| Triebwerk: | 3 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 |
| Besatzung: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 8 |
| Fluggäste: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 149 |
| Gesamt: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 157 |
| Opfer des Zusammenstoßes: | Todesopfer: 1 |
| Sachschaden: | schwer beschädigt |
| Konsequenzen: | Repaired |
| Unfallort: | Atlanta-William B. Hartsfield International Airport, GA (ATL) (USA)
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| Flugphase: | Landung (LDG) |
| Betriebsart: | Inländischer planmäßiger Passagierflug |
| Flug von: | New York-La Guardia Airport, NY (LGA/KLGA), USA |
| Atlanta-William B. Hartsfield International Airport, GA (ATL/KATL), USA | |
| Flugnummer: | 111 |
Eastern Airlines flight 111, while landing on the runway in night visual conditions, collided with an Epps Air Service Beechcraft King Air A100, N44UE. The King Air had been cleared to land on runway 26R ahead of the Eastern flight and was in its landing roll. It was struck from behind by the B-727, which had also been cleared to land on runway 26R. The B-727 sustained substantial damage, the King Air was destroyed as a result of the collision. The pilot of the King
Air sustained fatal injuries, and the copilot, the only other occupant, sustained severe injuries.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "(1) The failure of the Federal Aviation Administration to provide air traffic control procedures that adequately take into consideration human performance factors such as those which resulted in the failure of the north local controller to detect the developing conflict between N44UE and EA 111, and (2) the failure of the north local controller to ensure the separation of arriving aircraft which were using the same runway.
Contributing to the accident was the failure of the north local controller to follow the prescribed procedure of issuing appropriate traffic information to EA 111, and failure of the north final controller and the radar monitor controller to issue timely speed reductions to maintain adequate separation between aircraft on final approach."
Informationsquelle:
» Air Safety Week 3.4.1995 (p. 4)
» Aviation Week & Space Technology 29.1.90(20)
» NTSB/AAR-91/03
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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 New York-La Guardia Airport, NY to Atlanta-William B. Hartsfield International Airport, GA as the crow flies is 1216 km (760 miles).
Distance from New York-La Guardia Airport, NY to Atlanta-William B. Hartsfield International Airport, GA as the crow flies is 1216 km (760 miles).
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.
