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This plane crash takes us to the European country of Luxembourg, which is located next to the following countries: France, Belgium and Germany.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft, photographed in 2000.
Luxair Flight 9642 (LG9642/LGL9642) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Berlin Tempelhof Airport (IATA: THF, ICAO: EDDI), Germany, to Luxembourg Findel Airport (IATA: LUX, ICAO: ELLX), Luxembourg, operated by Luxembourg's national airline Luxair. On the 6th of November 2002, the aircraft operating the flight, a Fokker 50 registered as LX-LGB (Lima Xray- Lima Golf Bravo), lost control and crashed onto a field during an attempted landing at the airport. Out of 22 passengers and crew members on board, only two people survived. The crash is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Luxembourg and the only fatal accident in Luxair's history.
Luxembourg's Administration for Technical Investigations (AET) concluded that the crash was caused by pilot error. The crew decided to accept the approach clearance that had been given by the ATC even though they had not conducted enough preparation for the landing, leading the crew to conduct a series of improvised actions. Their actions led to the override of a certain safety feature that would have prevented the propellers from entering the reverse angle, enabling the propellers to enter the reverse angle in flight and led to the lost control situation.
The result of the investigation highlighted the possible safety risk regarding the protection system against an accidental deployment of reverse angle in turboprops during mid-flight, prompting Fokker to issue a mandatory modification on the safety feature.
The aircraft involved was a Fokker F50, manufactured in 1991 with a serial number of 20221. The aircraft was delivered to Luxair on the same year registered as LX-LGB. Equipped with Pratt & Whitney PW125B engines and two Dowty propellers, it had accumulated a total of 24,068 flight cycles. According to Luxair, the aircraft had been maintained properly. The last service was conducted on the 4th of May. The maintenance logbook indicated that the last defect, an inoperative anti-skid system on the aircraft, had been rectified on the 5th of November, one day before the accident.
In command was 26-year-old Captain Claude Poeckes, who had a total flying experience of 4,242 flight hours and 2,864 hours on type. His co-pilot was 32-year-old First Officer John Arendt with total flight hours of 1,156 and 443 hours on type.
Flight 9642 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Berlin-Tempelhof Airport to Luxembourg Findel Airport. On the 6th of November, the aircraft was scheduled to take off from Tempelhof and would be piloted by Captain Claude Poeckes and his co-pilot First Officer John Arendt. It took off from Berlin at around 07:40 a.m local time with 19 passengers and 3 crew members on board.
While the aircraft was flying at it's cruising altitude, at around 08:55 a.m, the pilots checked the Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) for the weather information in Luxembourg. They discovered that the runway visual range was at 275 metres (902 ft), lower than the minimum amount of 300 metres (980 ft) that was required for the Fokker 50 to obtain before landing. The visibility in the area had deteriorated due to the presence of heavy fog. With such low visibility, the crew realised that there would be delay for the landing. They either had to wait until the weather condition began to improve by entering the holding pattern or diverting their aircraft to the alternate airport.
