Pics/video: UPS Airbus A300 accident at Birmingham 14aug2013

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Developing story -
the information presented here is preliminary and may change rapidly.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 20130814-0

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https://plus.google.com/108868884822043 ... 5razqJrVo7 has a map...

[Rockville]

From the AP: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/faa-ups- ... ingham-ala

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Fox6Clare Clare Huddleston 14m

Wider view of plane crash. Hearing hazardous materials may be on plane. I can see flames at crash site pic.twitter.com/E9R6jH19Rf

https://twitter.com/Fox6Clare/status/36 ... 52/photo/1

Fox6Clare Clare Huddleston 22m

this is remain of plane on hillside pic.twitter.com/ifkauhuZo8

https://twitter.com/Fox6Clare/status/36 ... 92/photo/1

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http://2rb79u3xk7ie24aly21l64w1cnu.wpen ... crash3.jpg
is a rather large picture...

Also see http://www.alabamas13.com/story/2313215 ... lane-crash

Slightly more details have now come to light, see
http://avherald.com/h?article=466d969f&opt=0
and
http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 20130814-0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6YCmoW0uNY

...seems to have been copied from http://www.alabamas13.com/story/2313215 ... lane-crash ...

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It is now official:
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/08/pla ... gham-.html

Both pilots didn't live to tell the tale...

The cockpit doesn't look to be very much fire-damaged, if at all, but the forces from under the cockpitfloor must have been severe...

Taken from link above:
http://imgick.al.com/home/bama-media/pg ... f6e2b4.JPG
and
http://imgick.al.com/home/bama-media/pg ... 75fce8.jpg

[evhest]

The scene reminds me somewhat of the Turkish airlines 737 at Schiphol.

[pjotrtje]

Is it just me and FR24, or did they really have a rate of descent of over 3,000fpm in the last couple of miles?

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Is it just me and FR24, or did they really have a rate of descent of over 3,000fpm in the last couple of miles?

Flightware shows -5300ft in the last minutes...

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created Wednesday, Aug 14th 2013 11:21Z, last updated Tuesday, Sep 9th 2014 18:13Z

http://avherald.com/h?article=466d969f&opt=0

SEPT. 9, 2014

Lack of Sleep Is Ruled Factor in 2013 UPS Plane Crash

WASHINGTON — Short of sleep, confused about their altitude and relying on inaccurate weather information, the crew members of a UPS cargo plane trying to land at the airport in Birmingham, Ala., omitted several crucial steps that might have kept them from flying their aircraft into the ground in August 2013, investigators of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.

An onboard system intended to prevent this kind of accident might have saved them, investigators said, but gave an inadequate warning because the software was old.

The airplane, an Airbus A300, also carried a system that automatically called out height during approach, but it was turned off.

The crash, on Aug. 14, 2013, has reopened a debate about fatigue in the cockpit, especially for package-haulers, who fly mostly at night.

Early this year, the Federal Aviation Administration revised the limits on scheduling for passenger carriers but exempted cargo airlines, infuriating pilot unions at the cargo carriers.

The safety board said the schedules flown by the crew members in this accident would have come close to meeting the new standards anyway,
if they had been in force at the time of the crash.

... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/us/up ... .html?_r=0
gives some more background information.

[CJ]

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