Statuts: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Date: | jeudi 15 octobre 2015 |
Heure: | 07:18 |
Type/Sous-type: |  Boeing 747-3B3 |
Compagnie: | Mahan Air |
Immatriculation: | EP-MNE |
Numéro de série: | 23480/641 |
Année de Fabrication: | 1984-04-14 (31 years 6 months) |
Heures de vol: | 92754 |
Cycles: | 17679 |
Moteurs: | 4 General Electric CF6-50E2 |
Equipage: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 19 |
Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 422 |
Total: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 441 |
Dégats de l'appareil: | Substantiels |
Conséquences: | Repaired |
Lieu de l'accident: | près de Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR) ( Iran)
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Phase de vol: | En montée initiale (ICL) |
Nature: | Transport de Passagers Nat. |
Aéroport de départ: | Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR/OIII), Iran |
Aéroport de destination: | Bandar Abbas Airport (BND/OIKB), Iran |
Numéro de vol: | W51095 |
Détails:Mahan Air flight 1095 returned to land at Tehran-Mehrabad Airport, Iran after suffered an uncontained engine failure.
The aircraft, a Boeing 747-300, registered EP-MNE operated a scheduled flight from Mehrabad International Airport to Bandar Abbas Airport, carrying 19 flight crew and 422 passengers. The aircraft departed from Tehran at 07:16 hours local time.
About 07:18, while climbing through 7500 feet, the no.3 General Electric CF6-50E2 engine suffered an uncontained failure. Some parts of the engine detached and struck engine no. 4, as well as aircraft structure. The aircraft hydraulic systems no 1, 3 and 4 failed due to impact of debris from engine no.3. An emergency landing was made back at Tehran at 07:53.
Investigation revealed that the engine failure was initiated by vibration as a result of unbalance of the engine HPT module, which caused crack propagation in the low pressure turbine (LPT)
Probable Cause:
CAUSE of ACCIDENT:
The operators fault to modify the ENG# 3 with AD requirement, and ineffective action for N1 Vibration which caused uncontained engine failure.
Contributing factors:
- Insufficient operator maintenance & engineering performance
- Lack of effective monitoring in operators line maintenance
- Lack of support for engine parts and mandatory information from the manufacturer
- Lack of effective monitoring in Mahan air concerning operation, training and technical divisions.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | AAIB Iran  |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 years | Accident number: | A13940723EPMNE | Download report: | Final report
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Opérations de secours
AAIB Iran issued 6 Safety Recommendations
Issued: -- | To: ICAO | EP-MNE(1) |
The ICAO Air Navigation Commission (ANC) should recommend the Airworthiness Panel (AIRP) to review the situation of embargoed countries in respect of continuing airworthiness for receiving mandatory information from the State of Design and take corrective actions for implementing the standards of Annex 8, Chapter 4, by the Contracting States. |
Issued: -- | To: CAO IRI | EP-MNE(2) |
To implement ICAO SARPS as well as its national CAOIRI regulations, to ensure the establishment of an effective engineering system in the air carriers to maintain aircraft airworthiness in a standard based level. |
Issued: -- | To: CAO IRI | EP-MNE(3) |
To establish a system to monitor matching between operating aircraft category and airport characteristics . |
Issued: -- | To: CAO IRI | EP-MNE(4) |
Require all aircraft operators to train pilots for the similar occurrences in the simulator for taking proper actions during the different course of the accident. |
Issued: -- | To: NTSB | EP-MNE(5) |
To establish an analytical report for safety concerns about the effects of Embargo on civil aviation activities and deliver to the government of the United States to exempt Annex 8 standards related civil aircraft equipment from the embargo list for the improvement of the safety of civil flights. |
Issued: -- | To: FAA | EP-MNE(6) |
To review the findings of this accident report and improve the context of the AD No. 2012-02-07 to prevent such diffeciencies between the engine operators. |
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accident date:
15-10-2015type: Boeing 747-3B3
registration: EP-MNE
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Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposée destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Tehran-Mehrabad Airport et Bandar Abbas Airport est de 1050 km (656 miles).
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tel qu'ils sont connus à ce jour.