Date: | Sunday 5 August 2001 |
Time: | 04:43 |
Type: | Dassault Falcon 20C |
Owner/operator: | Naske Air |
Registration: | D-CBNA |
MSN: | 63 |
Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
Engine model: | General Electric CF700-2D2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 8 km SW of Narsarsuaq -
Greenland
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Keflavík International Airport (KEF/BIKF) |
Destination airport: | Narsarsuaq Airport (UAK/BGBW) |
Investigating agency: | HCL |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Falcon 20 operated on a chartered cargo flight from Gdansk, Poland to Louisville, KY (USA). Intermediate stops were planned at Copenhagen (Denmark), Keflavik (Iceland), Narsarsuaq (Greenland) and Sept-Îles (Canada). The flight was uneventful until the approach to Narsarsuaq. The crew made a briefing on the runway 07 NDB/DME approach while descending to FL195. At 04:27 UTC, while descending through FL130, Narsarsuaq cleared the crew for an approach at their own discretion. Weather at the time was: wind 080deg at 24 knots, visibility 10 km with broken clouds at 6000 feet and overcast at 9000 feet, light rain.
While flying the approach, the crew did not adhere to the Standard Operating Procedures a.o. with regards to altitude calls and checklist reading. Furthermore the GPWS was inoperative and the crew were exposed to peak fatigue. They were awake for 22 hours and were on duty for 16:56 hours. Flight duty time was exceeded by almost three hours. While attempting a visual approach to runway 07 the aircraft descended into a high ground to the left of the runway 07 approach path and broke up.
CAUSAL FACTOR: "A combination of non-adherence to the approach procedure and the lack of vertical position awareness was the causal factor to this CFIT accident."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | HCL |
Report number: | HCL 49/01 |
Status: | Preliminary report |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Preliminary report |
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Sources:
SKYbrary HCL 49/01
Location
Images:
photo (c) Pedro de la Cruz, via Werner Fischdick; Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI); March 1998
photo (c) Václav Kudela; Uherské Hradište-Kunovice Airport (UHO); August 2000
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