Status:	Schlussbericht
Datum:	24 MAI 1995
Zeit:	17:51
Flugzeugtyp:	Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante
Fluggesellschaft:	Knight Air
Kennzeichen:	G-OEAA
Werknummer:	110256
Baujahr:	1980
Betriebsstunden:	15348
Triebwerk:	2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34
Besatzung:	Todesopfer: 3 / Insassen: 3
Fluggäste:	Todesopfer: 9 / Insassen: 9
Gesamt:	Todesopfer: 12 / Insassen: 12
Sachschaden:	Zerstört
Konsequenzen:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Unfallort:	10 km (6.3 Meilen) NE of Leeds/Bradford Airport (LBA) (Großbritannien)
Flugphase:	Während des Fluges (ENR)
Betriebsart:	Inländischer planmäßiger Passagierflug
Flug von:	Leeds/Bradford Airport (LBA/EGNM), Großbritannien
Flug nach:	Aberdeen-Dyce Airport (ABZ/EGPD), Großbritannien
Flugnummer:	816

Unfallbericht:
Flight NE816 took off from Leeds-Bradford runway 14 at 17:47 LT in stormy weather. Two minutes after take-off the crew reported problems with their artificial horizon. When returning to the airport at 3600 feet the crew had severe problems in maintaining their heading. At 17:51 the aircraft entered a left turn, lost height rapidly and broke up partly before crashing into a farmland. On 15:01.96 the P2 artificial horizon of Bandeirante G-OEAB failed.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The following causal factors were identified:
i) One or, possibly, both of the aircraft's artificial horizons malfunctioned and, in the absence of a standby horizon, for which there was no airworthiness requirement, there was no single instrument available for assured attitude reference or simple means of determining which flight instruments had failed.
ii) The commander, who was probably the handling pilot, was initially unable to control the aircraft's heading without his artificial horizon, and was eventually unable to retain control of the aircraft whilst flying in IMC by reference to other flight instruments.
iii) The aircraft went out of control whilst flying in turbulent instrument meteorological conditions and entered a spiral dive from which the pilot, who was likely to have become spatially disoriented, was unable to recover." (AAIB)

Informationsquelle:
» Commuter/Regional Airline News International 29/5/95(1-2)
» Flight International 31.5-6.6.95(13)
» Flight Safety Follow-up action on occurrence report 2/96
» Times 26.5.95(4)