Airbus A320 crash in France. The biggest Airbus A320 accidents

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS-DOSSIER/. October 31, 2015 Airbus A321 passenger aircraft Russian airline"Kogalymavia" (Metrojet brand, "Metrojet", which operated a flight on the route Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) - St. Petersburg, disappeared from radar 23 minutes after takeoff.

Since the start of operation of the Airbus A320, 13 accidents have occurred with aircraft of this type (including modifications A319 and A321) (excluding the incident on October 31, 2015), leading to the death of 1 thousand 101 people on board.

On June 26, 1988, an Air France passenger plane Airbus A320-111 crashed ( registration number F-GFKC), performing a demonstration flight over the airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (France). Due to an altimeter malfunction and pilot error, the aircraft, while flying at low altitude, touched the tops of trees and fell into the forest. Three passengers out of 136 on board died.

On February 14, 1990, Indian Airlines Airbus A320-231 (registration number VT-EPN), operating flight 605 from Bombay (now Mumbai), crashed while landing at Bangalore Airport (India). The pilots did not notice that the plane was descending too quickly until the landing gear hit the concrete fence of a golf club near the airport. The airliner crashed near the runway. 92 people out of 146 on board were killed.

January 20, 1992 passenger airliner Airbus A320-111 (registration number F-GGED) of the French airline Air Inter, flying flight 148 on the route Lyon - Strasbourg, crashed into Mount Sainte-Odile 19.5 km from Strasbourg airport. 87 of the 96 people on board were killed. The investigation revealed that the crash occurred due to a number of factors, including the complexity of the on-board control system and adverse weather conditions.

September 14, 1993 in Warsaw international airport Okecze (now named after Frederic Chopin), a passenger aircraft A320-211 (registration number D-AIPN) of the German airline Lufthansa, operating flight 2904 from Frankfurt am Main, skidded off the runway. In conditions strong wind and a downpour, the crew of the airliner landed the car only 770 m from the end of the runway, the aircraft did not have time to brake, crashed into the fence and caught fire. One passenger and the captain-mentor were killed, the remaining 68 people on board were injured.

March 22, 1998 passenger Airbus airliner A320-214 (registration RP-C3222) of the Philippine Air Lines, operating domestic flight number 137 from Manila to Bacolod, was unable to perform normal braking during landing. The reason was the pilot's error, who turned off the reverse of one of the engines. The plane left the runway and crashed into wooden residential buildings outside the airport. None of the 130 people on board the plane were killed, but three people on the ground were killed.

23 August 2000 passenger aircraft A320-212 (registration A40-EK) bahrain airline Gulf Air flight 072 from Cairo to Manama (Bahrain) crashed into the waters of the Persian Gulf near Bahrain International Airport on the island. Muharraq. The crash occurred during a go-around after a failed approach caused by pilot error. All passengers and crew members died - 143 people.

Crash on May 3, 2006 passenger airliner Airbus A320-211 (registration number EK-32009) of the Armenian company Armavia (“Armavia”). The plane was flying flight 967 from Yerevan to Sochi. When landing at the destination airport in difficult weather conditions, the crew received a command to go around. While making a turn, the crew turned off the autopilot, after which the plane went into climb mode, lost speed and fell into the Black Sea. All 113 people on board were killed.

July 17, 2007 during landing at the airport Sao Paulo Airbus A320-233 (registration number PR-MBK) of the Brazilian airline TAM Airlines crashed on domestic flight 3054 from Porto Alegre. After landing, the plane was unable to brake on the slippery runway, flew off the runway, crashed into a hangar with aviation fuel and burned out. All 187 people on board and 12 more people on the ground were killed. The cause of the disaster was that the thrust of one of the engines was in takeoff mode during landing. The commission was unable to determine whether it was pilot error or a technical malfunction.

On May 30, 2008, an Airbus A320-233 passenger aircraft (registration number EI-TAF) of the Salvadoran company TACA International Airlines, flying flight 390 from San Salvador to Tegucigalpa (Honduras), when landing at the destination airport, rolled off the runway onto the city street and received significant damage. Three people on board and two in the car on the ground were killed. Among the dead passengers on the plane was Nicaraguan economist Harry Brautigam, president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE), who died of a heart attack.

On November 27, 2008, a passenger aircraft Airbus A320-232 (registration number D-AXLA) of XL Airways Germany, performing technical flight number 888T in the area of ​​the French Perpignan-Rivalt airport, crashed into the sea near settlement Canet-en-Roussillon. All seven people on board were killed. An investigation revealed that the crash occurred due to water entering the angle of attack sensors during maintenance. The failure of the sensors led to the crew losing control of the aircraft.

On July 28, 2010, Pakistani Airblue Airbus A321-231 (registration number AP-BJB), domestic flight 202 on the Karachi-Islamabad route, crashed north of Islamabad in heavy fog and monsoon rain. All 152 people on board were killed. The cause of the crash was weather conditions and uncoordinated actions of the crew.

December 28, 2014 On December 28, 2014, an Indonesian AirAsia Airbus A320-216 (registration PK-AXC), flying QZ8501 from Surabaya (Indonesia) to Singapore, disappeared from radar while over the Java Sea in the inter-island area Kalimantan (Borneo) and Belitung (Indonesia). There were 155 passengers and seven crew members on board. On January 3, 2015, during a search operation, wreckage of the liner was discovered at the bottom of the sea; between January and March, 106 bodies of the dead were found in the crash area.

On March 24, 2015, a passenger aircraft Airbus A320-211 (registration number D-AIPX) of the German airline Germanwings, operating regular flight 4U 9525 / GWI18G on the route Barcelona (Spain) - Dusseldorf (Germany), crashed into a mountain slope and completely collapsed in the Alps of Haute-Provence (France). There were 144 passengers and 6 crew members on board, all of whom died. The crash was the result of the deliberate actions of the plane's co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz.

It seems to me that people are taken for idiots. At least the official version, which was voiced by representatives of France, has quite a lot of inconsistencies, which raises even more questions.

In order to clarify the situation, a simple technique is used. The event is analyzed from different positions, posing very specific questions and looking for logical answers to them. The questions are generally standard, but as for the answers, in the absence of sufficient, confirmed facts, there will only be guesses.

Let's start with questions.

What happened? The crash of an A-320 plane with one and a half hundred passengers on board. The plane belonged to a German airline and was made in Europe. The commander of the ship was an experienced pilot with more than 6 thousand hours of flight time. The co-pilot was a pilot with just over 600 hours of flight time. The plane gradually lost altitude for 8 minutes and crashed into a mountain. Official version: The commander left the cockpit for some reason, the co-pilot barricaded the door and directed the plane towards the mountain. Suicide in its purest form. According to preliminary official data from the decoding of the recorders, the plane was technically sound at the time of the collision. A recording of the last minute of the flight published online reveals absolutely nothing, except that you can hear knocking sounds and a buzzer, which probably signaled a dangerous approach to the ground.

Event background? Here we consider the events that accompanied the crash of the A-320. NATO is moving its forces to eastern Europe(for exercises). Poroshenko dismisses Kolomoisky (for threatening to send his battalions to Kyiv). Ukraine is on the verge of default as its rating is downgraded to pre-default. The IMF allocates 15 billion to Ukraine for the restructuring of its debts alone. The war begins in Yemen.

Where did it happen? In the south of France in a rugged mountainous area, which greatly complicates the rescue operation and the access of specialists to conduct an investigation.

Who did? Officially, it was a certain Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot of the A-320 crew. Unofficial version is also present, but has not yet been voiced. Here the range of versions can range from a technical malfunction to a terrorist attack.

Why did you do it? Officially, Mr. Lubitz suffered from depression and was very worried about something, then versions of the reasons for the worries vary greatly. Not officially (if you do not take into account the version with a technical malfunction), only the target that could be pursued by terrorists remains. The pilot could have been used in the dark, or could have been subjected to some kind of psychological influence.

And now the actual analysis of the official version, since there are still no reliable facts to build our own. The official version, as I wrote above, has a number of very serious flaws. In order to see them, let's just imagine ourselves on board the A-320 at the time of the crash.

So the aircraft commander left the cockpit for some reason. The co-pilot barricaded the door and sent the plane on a descending trajectory. Next, the commander tried to return to the cockpit but was unable to do so. Moreover, he could not do this during the current, ATTENTION!!! 8 minutes. (a month of Sundays). That is, he stood at the door for 8 minutes like a beaten dog, knocked and did nothing else? Here is the first mismatch. Let's ask ourselves a question: How would a normal, adequate and, most importantly, experienced PIC behave in such a situation?

First, he would try to find out from the co-pilot - What's going on? And why did he lock the door and not open it? This dialogue had to be recorded by a recorder, even if it was a monologue. There is nothing even close to this on the presented recording. Further, the plane descended before colliding with the ground for as long as 8 minutes. I’m not an expert on the A-320, but I suspect that there should be a button to signal an emergency on board, not only in the cockpit, but also on the flight attendant console. Why didn’t the PIC take advantage of it is also a question, and if it did, then why are they silent about it? And most importantly, the plane changes flight levels ONLY! at the command of the dispatcher and if this is done by the pilot without permission, then this is already an emergency. The descent must be recorded from the ground, about which there must be appropriate negotiations between the controller and the pilot. But this fact is also silent for now.

Don't you think that the official version is a bit far-fetched?

Now let's look at the version with malicious intent. That is, some influential organization decided to carry out an action in which, for example, France and Germany would be covered. Let me explain why? Firstly, the plane crashed on French territory, and secondly, the plane belonged to the national carrier of Germany. Who exactly was on board at that moment did not really matter. So let’s say that the purpose of this action was to put these two countries at risk. To do this, you need at least two things, or zombie the pilot, who will kill himself and the others at the right time and in the right place. OR! To be able to manipulate aircraft systems so as to cause a disaster, so to speak, remotely. A modern aircraft is a highly complex device that widely uses electronic automation, which in turn is controlled by on-board computers with software. That is, in order to make the plane fly as it should, it is necessary to make changes to the software. Specialists from Airbus, of course, will lift me up with pitchforks, proving that this is impossible, because it is literally not possible at all. But we are considering versions, so we will accept this possibility as real. Let's continue, someone who has this opportunity makes the changes he needs to the control algorithms of the A-320 aircraft, then in order to make the plane crash into a mountain, several things are also needed. Make sure that the pilots do not notice this, and if they did, they would not be able to intervene to correct the situation. To carry out such an operation, it was necessary to damage the altimeter, start the autopilot, block manual control and any communication on board. If this is possible (I mean the result obtained), then it is better not to even come close to Airbus planes, let alone buy a ticket for them.

Now I hope it’s clear why the hastily put together official version looks so ridiculous. After all, if it suddenly turns out that Airbus planes can be manipulated like this, then not only European Airbus will go bankrupt, but also all those carriers that use these planes, and they are also mostly European. And now the most interesting question - Who will win as a result of this? That’s right - a company with the letter “B”, and I think you yourself know what country this company is from.

An Airbus A320 plane crashed in the south of France. The incident occurred in the Alpes-Haute-Provence department. The plane belonged to Germanwings and was flying from Düsseldorf to Barcelona, ​​carrying 142 passengers and eight crew members. More about the emergency

Airbus A320-200 crashed airline Air Asia.

Airbus of AirAsia Indonesia took off from Surabaya to Singapore. Less than an hour later, the pilot requested permission to change course and altitude due to weather conditions. He received permission to bypass the cloud area, but not to climb, since there were other aircraft in the same area. Then the airliner disappeared from radar screens without first sending distress signals. There were 162 people on board.

Airbus A321 crashed private airline Airblue in Pakistan. The plane was flying from Karachi in southern Pakistan to the country's capital, Islamabad. While landing in foggy and rainy conditions, the plane crashed in a forest near the airport. There were 152 people on board the liner, including six crew members and seven children. There are no survivors.

A US Airways Airbus A320 crashed into the Hudson River minutes after takeoff. The plane was flying from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina). There were 148 passengers and six crew members on board the plane. All passengers and crew survived, police said. Four people were taken to a New York hospital with hypothermia.

Airbus A320, operating flight number 390 from El Salvador to the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, was unable to brake after landing on runway and flew out of it. It fell from a 20-meter height onto cars moving along the road and split into three parts. Five people died, about 80 wounded were hospitalized.

The TAM Airlines Airbus A-320, while landing at Sao Paulo Airport, skidded off the runway and crashed into the TAM Airlines cargo terminal building. 199 people died.

On the night of the flight from Yerevan to Sochi, an A-320 plane of the Armenian company Armavia crashed into the Black Sea on approach to Adler. There were 113 people on board, all of them died.

On August 3, 2000, a Gulf Air Airbus A-320 crashed into Persian Gulf upon landing at Bahrain airport. Eight crew members and 135 passengers were killed. The disaster occurred due to the fault of the pilot: during the return approach, he lost control.

On March 22, 1998, at the airport in Bacolod (Philippines), an Airbus A-320 crashed into residential buildings located nearby during landing due to lack of runway. None of the six crew members and 121 passengers were injured. Three people on the ground were killed. The cause of the accident was determined to be pilot error.

On January 20, 1992, an A-320 aircraft from the French company Air Inter crashed near Strasbourg. During landing, the crew entered erroneous data into the autopilot, causing the plane to crash into a mountain. Five of the six crew members and 82 of the 90 passengers were killed.

On February 14, 1990, an Indian Airlines A320 crashed while landing at the airport in the Indian city of Bangalore. Due to pilot errors, the plane made a hard landing before reaching the runway. Four crew members out of seven and 88 passengers out of 139 were killed.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

The A320 airliner crashed in the Mediterranean Sea. The plane was flying from Paris to Cairo. He was expected at the international airport of the Egyptian capital at three in the morning local time. Approximately 280 km from the Egyptian coast, the plane disappeared from radar screens. There are no fewer mysteries in this story, but more and more shocking details appear. So, according to the Greek Ministry of Defense, before disappearing, the plane made an unexpected sharp turn - 90 degrees to the left, and then 360 degrees to the right.

After which it sharply dropped by six and a half thousand meters. This happened immediately after the A320 entered air space Egypt. There is another, even more stunning detail that may shed light on the investigation. Friend of one of the pilots fallen airliner said that a few days before the flight, the crew began to receive threats from unknown persons. An inscription in Arabic allegedly even appeared on board the liner: the next victim - and the flight number.

On board were citizens of Egypt, Iraq, France, Great Britain and Saudi Arabia. A total of 66 people, including crew. Among them are three small children. Psychologists and airline employees are now working with relatives and friends of passengers. Meanwhile, despite the fact that the version of the terrorist attack that occurred on board the plane has not yet been officially confirmed, the disaster has hit Egypt’s tourism even further. “We are very upset. As you know, 80% of hotels in Sharm El Sheikh have already closed, life has almost stopped. We are very sorry for the Egyptians,” - said traveler Jean-Luc Leborgne. Let us remind you that the first blow to Egypt’s tourism business came after it became known that a Russian plane crashed in the Sinai as a result of a terrorist attack - Russia suspended air traffic with this country.

The crashed plane had been in service for almost 13 years. The fatal flight was the fifth in a day, both pilots had extensive flying experience. There has only been one incident on board this liner. emergency situation. Almost three years ago, during a flight from Cairo to Istanbul, the plane returned to its departure airport due to overheating of one of the engines. The airline company itself has at least seven incidents, including several minor plane crashes. At the end of March this year, an Egyptian Airlines plane was hijacked. One of the passengers threatened to blow up the plane if the crew did not take a course to Cyprus. As for today's tragedy, an international commission will investigate it, and it will be announced by the representative of Egypt. France and the United States joined the search operation.

The A-320 aircraft of the German low-cost airline GermanWings took off on March 24 from Barcelona. There were 150 people on board and the landing was to take place in Düsseldorf. However, the flight was tragically cut short in the French Alps.

40 minutes after takeoff, the plane was at cruising level 380 (which corresponds to approximately 11,600 meters). Then the plane began an unauthorized descent at a speed of approximately 18 m/s and 8 minutes later crashed into a mountain. During the descent, the airliner's crew did not communicate with dispatchers.

The dispatcher, noticing the unauthorized descent, tried to call the crew, and then announced the alarm. The fighter was lifted into the air, but by that time the A-320, without changing course, had already disappeared from the radar screens.

The wreckage of the airliner was discovered in a mountainous area near the town of Barcelonet. All 150 people are considered dead.

An airline spokesman described the crash as "unexplained." But the information available in the public domain can already explain a lot.

So what was it? From the very first minutes, journalists began to voice numerous versions: engine failure, depressurization of the plane, explosion on board, hijacking of the plane, poisoning of the pilots, failure of absolutely all equipment.

Which of these versions are immediately rejected? Engine failure, explosion on board, failure of absolutely everything and depressurization.

In all these cases, the crew would be able to get in touch, or (in the case of a terrible explosion) the plane’s fall would not be so smooth, without sudden changes in course and altitude.

If even all engines fail (while the plane is at flight level), there is enough time to communicate with dispatchers and many opportunities to make a difficult but accident-free landing.

Refusal of absolutely everything! This is from the realm of fantasy, but even in this case, there is an emergency radio station on board, and pilots can control the aircraft manually. Well, if everything really fails, the fall again will not be so smooth and purposeful.

Poisoning of pilots. Okay, they were poisoned - but then who put the plane into descent? Terrorists? But could they at least shout something into the air? To indicate your intentions?

Depressurization, fire on board. The crew has 15 seconds to put on their oxygen masks. Then they will lose consciousness. Didn't have time to put it on and lost consciousness instantly? Again, who put the plane in descent? The autopilot should not have intervened at this stage. In addition, there have already been cases of loss of consciousness by the crew. The plane continued to fly at a given altitude and heading until the fuel was completely exhausted.

Capturing the crew? So lightning fast that the crew was unable to transmit a distress signal to the ground? Not convincing.

But what happened then? Will the disaster really remain unexplained? Fortunately for potential passengers, no. There is already a solution. Although it is unlikely to add optimism when buying an air ticket.

According to the French Bureau of Air Accident Investigation, the plane was controlled by an autopilot until it hit the ground. This means that the unplanned descent was entered into the computer by one of the crew members. And the entered data provided for the final flight point - the Alpine Mountains.

Newspaper " NY The Times published the solution to the disaster. About 15 minutes before the tragedy, one of the pilots left the cockpit. He could no longer return to his place - the door lock was blocked from the inside. In the audio recording, the pilot can be heard knocking on the door. At first the knocks are quiet. Then stronger. Then even stronger. The pilot asks his partner to open the door, but the answer is silence. During the last minutes, attempts to break into the cabin door can be heard on the recording. Alas, the cabin door is armored.

Meanwhile, the pilot, who was in his seat, enters new data into the autopilot. The plane begins to descend. The countdown of the last eight minutes of the lives of 150 people begins...

Electronic cabin lock. The crew can leave the cabin by loudly slamming the door behind them. You can log back in only after dialing the code combination (as on the intercom panel). There is a video camera in the cockpit of modern airplanes that shows someone standing at the door. The crew has a few seconds to think about whether to let them in or not. If the subject is suspicious, the lock is blocked and the terrorist will not get through. In addition, there is a regular mechanical lock from the inside. Move the latch and the cabin becomes an armored bunker.

What do such strange actions of one of the pilots mean? Terrorist attack? Or the desire to die “beautifully”? Having paid for “beauty” with one hundred and fifty victims?
Perhaps this secret will someday be revealed.

What about the so-called “mysterious” disappearance of a Malaysian Boeing 777 more than a year ago? Not from the same series? Aviation suicides? Or murderers? The Boeing could have disappeared in the depths of the ocean, where one of the crew members gently directed it. And no debris, no kerosene stains! The AviaTitanic lies intact at the bottom, becoming a sarcophagus for hundreds of people. Maybe someday he will be discovered. About a hundred years from now!

Alas, our world is becoming more and more “upside down”, and life is becoming more and more dangerous. It is becoming increasingly difficult to live to old age and die in your own bed. But you still need to live! And you need to fly! It's scary, but you need to fight fears.

Good luck to readers in the air, on land and on water!

Reviews

I would like to thank Dmitry for his articles on aviation accidents. They (the articles) are distinguished by a deep analysis of the possible development of the situation. I evaluate everything from a professional point of view: I have given many years civil aviation, last position - PIC. I would like to know Dmitry’s opinion about the Kazan disaster. The thing is, I don't believe in official version. Not only did I know PIC Salikhov personally, but I also saw his piloting technique. My opinion: this tragedy was not at all the fault of the crew. I believe there was a technical problem. It is enough to recall the problems with this type of aircraft that arose during the initial period of its operation. In this regard, I have the following question: where and in what countries was the “Kazan” aircraft operated before it began carrying out transportation in Tatarstan? Has the management system been improved in accordance with the bulletin? After all, disasters in the initial period of operation of this type were precisely associated with a mechanical defect in the control system. I would be grateful to Dmitry if he deems it necessary to express his opinion. It suits me (and not only me) more than the conclusions of the MAK.

Mikhail, this plane has never been used anywhere!
In Uganda, Brazil, Romania, Bulgaria... According to the findings of the IAC, all
modifications were completed, maintenance was carried out on time, no complaints
there was no technology.
The fact is that even existing PICs on such Boeings are inclined to believe that
crew errors.
There were many rumors in connection with the presence of the president’s son on board
Tatarstan and a star general from the FSB. Witnesses have appeared stating
about the presence of strangers in the cabin. Emergency carriers were lost and found. But everything was officially denied.
What can you say to this? May the earth rest in peace to all those who died!
Sincerely!