Flugunfall 13 AUG 2006 einer Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules 7T-VHG - Piacenza
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Status:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Datum:Sonntag 13 August 2006
Zeit:20:15
Flugzeugtyp:Silhouette image of generic C130 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
Fluggesellschaft:Air Algérie
Kennzeichen: 7T-VHG
Werknummer: 4880
Baujahr: 1981
Betriebsstunden:31889
Anzahl Zyklen der Zelle:13173
Triebwerk: 4 Allison 501-D22A
Besatzung:Todesopfer: 3 / Insassen: 3
Fluggäste:Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 0
Gesamt:Todesopfer: 3 / Insassen: 3
Sachschaden: Zerstört
Konsequenzen: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Unfallort:SW of Piacenza (   Italien)
Flugphase: Während des Fluges (ENR)
Betriebsart:Frachtflug
Flug von:Algiers-Houari Boumediene Airport (ALG/DAAG), Algerien
Flug nach:Frankfurt International Airport (FRA/EDDF), Deutschland
Flugnummer:2208
Unfallbericht:
An Air Algérie Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules cargo plane was destroyed when it crashed near Piacenza in Italy. All three crew members were killed.
The aircraft departed departed Algiers Airport, Algeria, at 16:05 UTC on a cargo flight to Frankfurt, Germany. The aircraft carried a load of 3696 pounds. The flight climbed to the cruising altitude of FL240 and crossed the Mediterranean Sea towards St. Tropez, France. The aircraft continued towards Italy.
Around 17:52 UTC the co-pilot, in conversation with the flight engineer, reported distant cloud formations. The subject of the subsequent conversations was again the existing weather conditions and a possible presence of ice. Later, around 18:04, near the MONEB reporting point, the crew talked about a large cloud formation that was exactly on the route the aircraft would have to travel to the next navigation point, called ABESI. The commander, at this point, suggested to assume a heading of 020° to avoid the cloud formation. At 18:05 the crew was instructed to contact Milano ACC.
The flight received confirmation that they could proceed towards the ABESI point and that they could avoid any cloud formation at their discretion. In the following minutes the crew discussed the possible approach routes and the possible runway in use at the destination airport.
At 18:14 the co-pilot reported the inefficiency of the autopilot system. From this moment on, the situation on board became excited and conversations in the cockpit denoted the crew's difficulty in maintaining control of the aircraft. During this phase of the flight, during which the acoustic overspeed warning activated in the cockpit. There was a loss of altitude of the aircraft with increasing speed. At 18:14:47 UTC the CVR recording was interrupted and after 32 seconds, at 18:15:19, the aircraft hit the ground in an agricultural land called Ca'degli Ossi, near Besurica, a residential area located in the south-west outskirts of Piacenza.

Probable Cause:

CAUSES:
The very high state of fragmentation of the wreck and the substantial absence/utilisation of FDR data made the safety investigation very difficult and therefore could not acquire some indisputable certainties on certain aspects.
The indications resulting from the examination of the acquired evidence and from the many technical analyses carried out lead to believe that the accident occurred because of the loss sudden control of the aircraft, induced, reasonably speaking, by a technical problem in the flight control system, which the pilots were unable to counter/manage and which the safety investigation could not detect with absolute certainty.

Accident investigation:

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Investigating agency: ANSV Italy
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 13 years and 9 months
Accident number: final report
Download report: Final report

Informationsquelle:
» Algérie Presse Service
» ANSV


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photo of Lockheed-L-100-30-Hercules-7T-VHG
accident date: 13-08-2006
type: Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
registration: 7T-VHG
photo of Lockheed-L-100-30-Hercules-7T-VHG
accident date: 13-08-2006
type: Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
registration: 7T-VHG
photo of Lockheed-L-100-30-Hercules-7T-VHG
accident date: 13-08-2006
type: Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
registration: 7T-VHG
 

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 Algiers-Houari Boumediene Airport to Frankfurt International Airport as the crow flies is 1533 km (958 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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