Major incident at Cork airport?

[Magror14]

From what I can see threads don't close

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Thanks for the response Magror14. I think this thread would now be better under transport.

I just wanted to highlight the preliminary findings of the Air Accident Investigation Unit( Air Accident Investigation Unit click on recent reports).

A lot of the fault will lie with the crew (the captain in particular) but it sounds like there will be a much wider spread of culpability.

Paragraph 1 sets out very clearly the wider context for this accident.

"The operation of the flight involved three seperate undertakings; a Spanish holder of the Air Operators Certificate, a ticket seller based in the Isle of Man, and a second Spanish company that supplied the flightcrew and aircraft. The ticket seller held a Tour Operators Licence issued by the Irish Commission for Airline Regulation".

This was a real tangled mess with no clear lines of responsibility.

The findings also raise important questions about,
1. The lack of experience of both flightcrew.
2. The flightcrew's training.
3. The regulatory oversight and operational control.

I hope that the growth of 'virtual' airlines (such as Manx.2) and the increasing practice of using contracted flightcrew (as opposed to pilot employees) will be very closely examined once the final results come out. These practices are detrimental to the ongoing monitoring and enhancement of flightcrew performance.

These two pilots should not have been paired together in these circumstances and large fault lies with the organisation(more like lack of) and regulatory system which placed them in it.

I am sorry for speaking ill of the dead.

[Kitty O'Shea]

An interim report published by the Air Accident Investigation Unit, has found that a sensor on the right-side engine was shorter than manufacturing recommendations, and there was also a leak in the sensor. As a result of this defect the temperature shown on the sensor was roughly 135oF lower than the actual temperature.
This would have resulted in a number of consequences against the performance of the engine.
Sensor fault found in Cork plane crash inquiry - RT News