Candair CRJ200 from Heathrow Declares then Disappears

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"A distress call (Mayday) was received shortly after midnight January 8, 2016 from an aircraft performing a post-flight from Oslo to Tromso with two people on board. The aircraft disappeared from radar about the same time. The accident site is located west of Kiruna.

Swedish Accident Investigation Board (SHK) has launched an investigation into the accident. It is still too early to draw any conclusions about the course of events. It may be noted that the wreckage is localized and is in mountain terrain. Accident Investigation Board will initially examine the wreckage with a focus on finding and disposing of the aircraft recorders (black boxes). Furthermore, radar data and radio communications, etc. to be obtained.

At the crash site interacts Commission of Inquiry, including police, emergency services and the armed forces.

During Saturday, 9 January, the emergency services could pump up about 1.5 cubic meters of liquid from the crater formed at the crash site. The liquid contains largely jet fuel.

JAIC's work at the scene means to begin with, to assist the police and emergency services to find the aircraft's crew. Otherwise, the work is focused on finding the aircraft called black boxes.

The aircraft was equipped with two black boxes. One is a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and records audio in the cockpit. The other is an Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and records technical data on the flight.

Saturday is one of the black boxes (FDR) found. It is heavily demolished and SHK technical investigators are working to determine whether the memory device is intact. The device will then be transported to a laboratory where the information can be read out. It may take some weeks before this is done.

Parts of the second black box (CVR) have also been found. That device is not, however, intact, and the part that contains memory functions have not yet been found. Efforts to find the remaining parts will continue."
 
mshunter said:
I know. It has me thinking about a trim failure ala-Alaska.
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That's what I thought. You would have to assume that it would be something as drastic as that. I hope it's nothing caused by the pilots. Surprised this isn't flashing all over our news with some sort of "aviation expert" analysis from an expert who has never flown a commercial airliner jet.

RIP. Gives me chills looking at that.
 
Very scary the way the earth just swallowed them up. Must have been a damned-near vertical dive. Poor bastards. Horrible way to go, whatever caused it. RIP fellas...
 
JeppUpdater said:
It's cargo, therefore unimportant. Think anyone non-aviation could even tell you UPS lost a couple pilots in BHM fairly recently?

Tailwinds gents.
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Very true. It's just a cargo plane. Airlines don't fly that plane. They fly passenger jets. And the pilots are more experienced.
 
Honestly, the fact that it was a CRJ accident, makes me really curious as CRJs are operated by the hundreds here in the U.S. What a sad and brutal way to go. May the crew R.I.P. Like everyone else is saying, I suspect something similar to the AS 261 accident. I hope they're able to find the cause among such an insanely hard impact. :(
 
Itchy said:
It really would not have to be a hella fire. Smoke alone could do it like the UPS 747. You can't see the instruments with the autopilot off, and it becomes a very short flight.
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Of course, but it seems - with no real information - like this was quite sudden.
 
Itchy said:
It really would not have to be a hella fire. Smoke alone could do it like the UPS 747. You can't see the instruments with the autopilot off, and it becomes a very short flight.
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This didn't crash anything like UPS 6. Look at the mark it left on the ground. They were in a near vertical dive and not flat.
 
z987k said:
This didn't crash anything like UPS 6. Look at the mark it left on the ground. They were in a near vertical dive and not flat.
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True, I was referring to the inability of having any control due to not seeing the instruments, which IIRC, the UPS 747 was similar. It seemed it was not the fire, but the smoke which was the issue. I was not comparing impact dynamics.
 
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