Simviation Forum - Disaster in Benin

Dec 26^th, 2003 at 6:30am

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A 727 has crashed just after take-off in Benin.
The aircraft couldn't retract its undercarriage and clipped a building before plunging into the Atlantic some 100 meters from shore.
So far 96 are confirmed dead, and there are 20 survivors.
The plane was carrying 156 passengers and an unknown number of crew (the co-pilot did survive!) Sad

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Reply #1 - Dec 26^th, 2003 at 6:32am

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Bad at any time, seems worse at Christmas Sad

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Reply #2 - Dec 26^th, 2003 at 7:45am

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Reply #3 - Dec 26^th, 2003 at 8:47am

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Horrible that it should happen at this time of year... Sad

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Reply #4 - Dec 26^th, 2003 at 9:36am

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sounds like a problem with the hydraulics system...

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Reply #5 - Dec 26^th, 2003 at 12:13pm

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Reply #6 - Dec 26^th, 2003 at 8:55pm

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Horrible that it should happen at this time of year... Sad

Horrible for it to happen at any time of year!

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Reply #7 - Dec 26^th, 2003 at 10:41pm

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this worlds going mad . . . . . . earthquakes and everything like that .. .. ..

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Reply #8 - Dec 27^th, 2003 at 2:33am

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Very sad.

I have bad memories of the 727 after a terrible fatal accident at Gatwick in January 1969.* This was put down to pilot error & might be unfair to the aircraft but I never liked it after that. From these statistics I found it doesn't have a particularly good safety record. http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/b727.htm

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I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. These things are always happening somewhere in the world. It just seems worse at this time of year.

*PS. Note from the statistics how many crashed short of the runway on final approach. This happened in the incident I mentioned at Gatwick. It completely demolished a house killing both adult occupants who were asleep at the time. Their baby girl survived without a scratch. She is now married to the twin brother of a friend of mine.

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Reply #9 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 1:27am

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This is African aviation at it's worst I'm afraid.

This particular aircraft had already been refused a Lebanese registration due to maintainance concerns.

Sounds like a case of gross overloading to me. 156 seats on board and 253 tickets sold. It was a warm afternoon at a temperature of 32 deg. C with a light breeze as the 727 taxied to runway 24. Runway 06/24 is an asphalt runway, measuring 2400 (7874 feet) meters with a 61m (199 feet) overrun zone. According to FAA runway length requirement calculations, a fully laden Boeing 727-200 with JT8D-9 engines and a 25-degrees flap setting would, given the weather and airfield elevation, need a runway length of approx. 8000 feet.

This is the second disaster like this in a month, and I don't for one minute think this is going to stop now.

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Reply #10 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 5:19am

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it can never be stopped... Undecided

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Reply #11 - Dec 28^th, 2003 at 8:52pm

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Maybe nature is dishing out payback because we are destroying the world...

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