BIG AIR ACCIDENTS: BETWEEN WEATHER AND PILOT ERROR, THE MIRACLE LANDING fast-paced OF AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 358. LONG BURN THE SUN We've tried before landing is the peak on a flight and if we add to this evil weather the thing is literally impossible mission, that's when drivers must make crucial decisions that ultimately could save your life ... or rob.
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The following events happened in Canada in 2005, and was known by the press of that country as
The Miracle of Toronto, is the tremendous history of Air France Flight 358.
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The date is August 2, 2005, and we rank at the international airport Toronto / Pearson in Toronto, Canada., Approaching maneuvers final approach and landing is a device tetramotor European manufacturing.
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is an Airbus A340-313X of the respected airline next Air France Flight 358 from covering the international airport Paris-Charles de Gaulle in Paris, France nonstop flight to Toronto, its enrollment is the F-GLZQ.
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In front of the controls of the refined European aircraft is the captain Alain Rosay 57 years of age and with it comes the first officer Frederic Naud 43, including 10 flight attendants who serve the 297 passengers on that transatlantic flight, all preparing to land in Toronto, but before there was anything that was going to make the journey difficult.
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It's raining cats and dogs, and too many low clouds, pilots can not see where is the airport ground control are those who tell them how to get the call
landing path is a space where they must maintain both the proper speed as specified altitude to reach safe and sound tracks, in this case had been assigned to landing runway 24L.
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So the pilots put the data into the computer to land on this runway, but can not see, and what is worse, the plane shakes alarmingly because of the strong winds that hit the airport in Toronto, both Rosay captain and first officer Naud take hold at the controls in the hope that things will not bring more bad than they already were, ordered everyone to make sure the seats.
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Inside the cabin several people felt these terrible vibrations of the apparatus, to more than one guy made him the stomach, this landing was going to be heavier than usual, and the flight attendants tried to smile through all this and deep inside these crew wanted to maintain the confidence of the pilots knew what they were doing.
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The winds are terrible, about 44 kph., And rágafas up to 61 mph., Plus the roof to see the track was very bad, just some 61 meters high and not say how far it was supposed that the tracks should be visible, in theory they should see about 800 feet forward, worse could not have found the drivers Gauls.
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's almost 16:00 local time in Toronto, the pilots discussed in cockpit about who can not see anything out, they must rely entirely on the tools to figure out how to get to track, monitor both the speed displacement as the fall to prevent something terrible, lower slowly, fighting the tail wind can carry them faster than they should, they want to pose the train tracks.
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In fact they succeed ... beyond the usual point of contact, the pilots had not realized that they had left the track was not going to achieve and there was the fact that the track itself was slippery by rain that fell incessantly.
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In the passenger section several people nervous shaking of the plane both felt relieved that he finally had landed and began to clap, but then something even more terrifying felt the tremors of the apparatus, they were not stopping, something was wrong, badly.
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pilots were struggling to try to make the enormous apparatus to stop, but nothing I did seemed to work, the track was running out, get out of it and then walk about 300 meters from ground level there after the track and fall a kind of small ravine which is the end of the runway 24L, there is at Etobicoke Creek stream called
, the plane goes haywire to say the least and because the wings had been damaged the fuel begins to leak
, a spark jumped and the fire began.
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everyone was stunned, were amazed not after what happened but then, seeing the flames even more horrified, but there came the actions of the flight attendants and who after leaving the initial astonishment went on movement by all passengers leaving for the plane's emergency exits, the doors opened (which might be open) and slides were activated, but it happened that one of these slides was punctured because of the rubble and another failed to deploy at all, so I all the evacuation of passengers was so swift, torrential rain that fell partly mitigated the action of fire but from time to time explosions could be heard fuel, who had left first and were strong helping others to get away from there.
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fell near where the Airbus runs a highway, the nearby 401 and runs the other, the Dixie Road
over there went some passengers who accosted the unsuspecting motorists who had stopped to see the strange spectacle of the plane on flames, several of these Motorists offered to take passengers to area hospitals as emergency services arrived to rescue others, by the way these services came so fast, it is known that about 50 seconds after the accident alarm presented.
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Among those who were taken to hospitals by motorists was the first officer Frederic Naud, he said he had tried to save the captain Alain Rosay but could not get him out of the cab, which Rosay told him to save himself and let him there, so the first officer went out among the evacuees and was worried about the fate of his master, fortunately, the rescuers found him and rescued him, was very wrong
wound do, but live.
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just went out the flames, between those who wanted to get to the bottom of this were the Transportation Safety Board (TSB or Bureau of Transportation Safety) of Canada, who had the valuable help of his U.S. counterpart NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board), the Minister of Transport Canada, Air France, Airbus assembly plant, the engine supplier General Electric (the ill-fated Airbus had General Electric CFMI CFM56-5C4), and the French Department of Transport.
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The first was to rescue the flight data recorders and cockpit voice, both are found and brought to France to be studied, and what they contain is very revealing: they are the unit had passed the point of contact of the runway 24L.
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parts, runway 24L was no longer just the Toronto airport, is about 2700 meters long, had been enabled on that day because one of its two of its longest track was in maintenance, other because of how they were taking the wind was closed, so it was for takeoff runway 24R and 24L for landing, both short tracks with a difference of about 200 meters apart.
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As investigators found that Flight 358 landed at about 1220 meters from the head of the track, literally had settled in half, they were something like 1500 meters to stop, and continued to finding things, as though the brake
spoilers were deployed on time and form and automatic brakes landing gear were fired found something incriminating, the reversers were activated too late.
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A French newspaper Le Figaro on
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had a long 12 seconds between landing and the activation of the reversers, and the question was if any have activated the reversers when touching the track had changed anything in the situation, the answer was that could have stopped the plane, if not in the track at least in the field of 300 meters was the end of it, but had not fallen into the ravine, it was clear.
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The cockpit voice recorder control also revealed that the pilots were confused because of so many low clouds, and instead of relying on their instruments set out to see out the windows trying to see the tracks, prompting many researchers to believe that the drivers were simply not focused and did not know where were, had to rely on their systems ... And they did.
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could go on telling what else did the pilots, but they were fairly punished for losing a large appliance like an A340, and yet there was a surprising detail, no one died, the 309 occupants live out there, here nationalities who traveled that day:
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104, Canada. ---
101, France.
--- U.S. 19.
--- 19 of Italy.
--- 8 of India. --- 7
England. --- 2
Germany. --- 1
Mexico.
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Here we should note the efficient work of flight attendants and flight attendants, all took their places with determination and courage, to them that all passengers must emerge.
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Following investigations were passage trials to respond to passengers for injuries received both physically and psychologically, passengers were eventually compensated.
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he was ill, because of his wounds never flew again, the first officer was suspended Frederic Naud a while, you know who has returned to flight for Air France.
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Sources:
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--- Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia in English and English versions.
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Aviation Safety Network.
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Pictures:
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Avion Airbus A340-313X Air France registration F-GLQZ damaged, detail of the plane on fire, aspect of what remained of the cockpit, holding
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fell where Air France Flight 358, taken from Aviation Safety Network.