ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-3Y0 EI-DON Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport (KGD)
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Status:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date:Wednesday 1 October 2008
Time:22:17
Type:Silhouette image of generic B733 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Boeing 737-3Y0
Operator:KD Avia
Registration: EI-DON
MSN: 23812/1511
First flight: 1988-02-10 (20 years 8 months)
Total airframe hrs:48514
Cycles:39949
Engines: 2 CFMI CFM56-3B1
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 138
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 144
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport (KGD) (   Russia)
Phase: Landing (LDG)
Nature:International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN/LEBL), Spain
Destination airport:Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport (KGD/UMKK), Russia
Flightnumber: 794
Narrative:
The accident aircraft Boeing 737-3Y0 EI-DON, was operated by KD Avia on a flight from Kaliningrad, Russia to Barcelona, Spain and return. Flight KD793 to Barcelona was uneventful.
The return flight, KD794, departed at 16:18 with 138 passengers and six crew members on board. The copilot was Pilot Flying, the captain was Pilot Monitoring.
The en route part of the flight was uneventful. As the flight was descending to Kaliningrad at night in heavy rains and with gusty crosswind. During the descent flaps were first selected at 1° and thereafter to 5°. As the flaps were transitioning to this position, a flap asymmetry warning caught the attention of the crew. At 19:00 hours the captain took over control and selected flaps to 2°, the position at which there was no asymmetry warning. The crew then contacted the controller at Kaliningrad and reported that they had flap problems.
As the descent was continued, the copilot performed the necessary calculations for a landing with flaps at 2°. At 19:09 the cabin crew was warned to prepare for a high-speed landing. Using the QRH to work the flap issue, the co-pilot activated the 'flap inhibit' and 'gear inhibit' switches. This "incorrect" action effectively disconnected the ground-proximity warning system (GPWS).
At 19:11 it was established that the landing speed would be Vref +30, leading to a planned landing speed of 161 knots.
At 19:14 the Landing Gear Warning Horn sounded due to the combination of power and flaps setting with the fact that the landing gear had not been selected down. This warning was cancelled by the crew.
When the engine power was reduced to idle, the Landing Gear Warning Horn sounded again. This time the crew did not pay attention to the warning and continued to land. The airplane performed a gear up landing, sliding for 1440 m before coming to rest on the runway.

The flap asymmetry issue was caused by a faulty Flap Position Transmitter. The flaps had extended to the commanded position, but the system incorrectly detected an asymmetry issue.
This issue had occurred previously on EI-DON. The sensor had been replaced prior to departure from Kaliningrad that same day.

Probable Cause:

CAUSE (translated from Russian):
The cause of the accident was landing the aircraft with landing gear retracted, leading to structural damage to the airplane and engines, and this was due to a combination of the following adverse factors:
- the erroneous action of the second pilot to switch of the GPWS, which was the result of incorrect execution of the recommendations in the QRH to disable the alarm when a flap asymmetry occurs;
- the presence on board the aircraft Boeing-737-300 EI-DON collection QRH, contained in paragraph Additional Deferred Item head Trailing Edge Flap Asymmetry, recommendations crew who are not specialized for a particular board layout;
- mistaken switching off by co-pilot the landing gear warning of ground proximity warning system (GPWS), that resulted from incorrect carrying out of the recommendations of Quick Reference Handbook (QRH) in part of switching off the trailing edge flap warning in case of asymmetrical extension.
- QRH availability on board of Boeing-737-300 EI-DON that contained in the Additional Deferred Item paragraph of the Trailing Edge Flap Asymmetry article the recommendations for crew team that were not particularized for the certain aircraft configuration.
- violation of the "Flight Crew Manual of the aircraft Boeing 737-300" and failure to comply with the QRH (section LANDING CHECKLIST), with the result that the crew did not deploy the undercarriage and did not control their position;
- the preconceived notion of the crew that Landing Gear Warning Horn audio alarm (alarm about the landing gear when the flaps are being selected) was a false warning during landing, causing the crew to repeatedly cut off the alarm without a checkng the position of the landing gear;
- poor crew interaction, as expressed in the absence of monitoring the compliance with FCOM and QRH, the origin and development of the particular situation.

Accident investigation:

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Investigating agency: MAK Russia
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 11 months
Accident number: B737-300 EI-DON
Download report: Final report

Classification:
Gear-up landing
Runway mishap

Sources:
» KD Avia


Photos

photo of Boeing-737-3Y0-EI-DON
accident date: 01-10-2008
type: Boeing 737-3Y0
registration: EI-DON
 

Aircraft history
date registration operator remarks
10 FEB 1988 PT-TEI Transbrazil leased
04 SEP 2001 N238CT CIT LC returned
20 DEC 2001 N375PA PACE Airlines leased
27 DEC 2006 EI-DON Kaliningrad Avia leased

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 Barcelona-El Prat Airport to Kaliningrad-Khrabrovo Airport as the crow flies is 2017 km (1260 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.

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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