Air Crash Daily | Armavia Flight 967 ATC Recording @AirCrashDaily | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Credits: @acc747
Accident Description: instagram.com/p/CdGvxCaBjQY/?igsh=MTdsNzlxNXF1NTN6dQ==
๐๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ณ was a scheduled international passenger flight from Yerevan to Sochi, operated by an Airbus A320 (Reg. EK32009) on ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฒ.
The plane departed Zvartnots at 00:47. Weather at Sochi was poor with rain and poor visibility. At 01:26 the crew decided to return to Yerevan due to the below minima weather conditions at Sochi. At 01:30 the crew again requested the latest weather information. Visibility now was reported as 3,600 meters with a cloud base at 170 meters. The captain now decided to continue to Sochi instead. Clearance was give to descent to an altitude of 3,600 meters. At 02:00 further descent instructions for 1800 m were issued by the air traffic controller. Weather conditions for an approach to runway 06 were now equal to the airport minima.
Sochi Tower then cleared the flight to descend to 600 meters. The glideslope was captured and the gear was lowered at 02:10. The crew reported ready and where cleared for landing. Weather was reported as 4,000 meters visibility with a cloud base at 190 meters. Weather deteriorated quickly and 30 seconds later the controller reported that the cloud base was now at 100 meters. He instructed the flight to abort the approach and told the crew to make a climbing right hand turn to an altitude of 600 meters. The plane was flying at 300 meters and performed a climbing turn to 450 meters Simultaneously the groundspeed dropped and the plane descended until it contacted the water and broke up.
๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฐ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐:
"The fatal crash of the Armavia A-320 EK-32009 was a CFIT accident that happened due to collision with the water while carrying-out a climbing manoeuvre after an aborted approach to Sochi airport at night with weather conditions below the established minima for runway 06. While performing the climb with the autopilot disengaged, the Captain, being in a psychoemotional stress condition, made nose down control inputs due to the loss of pitch and roll awareness. This started the abnormal situation. Subsequently the Captain's inputs in the pitch channel were insufficient to prevent development of the abnormal situation into the catastrophic one. Along with the inadequate control inputs of the Captain, the contributing factors to development of the abnormal situation into the catastrophic one were also the lack of necessary monitoring of the aircraft descent parameters (pitch attitude, altitude, vertical speed) by the co-pilot and the absence of proper reaction by the crew to the EGPWS warning."
Credits: @acc747
Accident Description: instagram.com/p/CdGvxCaBjQY/?igsh=MTdsNzlxNXF1NTN6dQ==
๐๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ณ was a scheduled international passenger flight from Yerevan to Sochi, operated by an Airbus A320 (Reg. EK32009) on ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฒ.
The plane departed Zvartnots at 00:47. Weather at Sochi was poor with rain and poor visibility. At 01:26 the crew decided to return to Yerevan due to the below minima weather conditions at Sochi. At 01:30 the crew again requested the latest weather information. Visibility now was reported as 3,600 meters with a cloud base at 170 meters. The captain now decided to continue to Sochi instead. Clearance was give to descent to an altitude of 3,600 meters. At 02:00 further descent instructions for 1800 m were issued by the air traffic controller. Weather conditions for an approach to runway 06 were now equal to the airport minima.
Sochi Tower then cleared the flight to descend to 600 meters. The glideslope was captured and the gear was lowered at 02:10. The crew reported ready and where cleared for landing. Weather was reported as 4,000 meters visibility with a cloud base at 190 meters. Weather deteriorated quickly and 30 seconds later the controller reported that the cloud base was now at 100 meters. He instructed the flight to abort the approach and told the crew to make a climbing right hand turn to an altitude of 600 meters. The plane was flying at 300 meters and performed a climbing turn to 450 meters Simultaneously the groundspeed dropped and the plane descended until it contacted the water and broke up.
๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฐ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐:
"The fatal crash of the Armavia A-320 EK-32009 was a CFIT accident that happened due to collision with the water while carrying-out a climbing manoeuvre after an aborted approach to Sochi airport at night with weather conditions below the established minima for runway 06. While performing the climb with the autopilot disengaged, the Captain, being in a psychoemotional stress condition, made nose down control inputs due to the loss of pitch and roll awareness. This started the abnormal situation. Subsequently the Captain's inputs in the pitch channel were insufficient to prevent development of the abnormal situation into the catastrophic one. Along with the inadequate control inputs of the Captain, the contributing factors to development of the abnormal situation into the catastrophic one were also the lack of necessary monitoring of the aircraft descent parameters (pitch attitude, altitude, vertical speed) by the co-pilot and the absence of proper reaction by the crew to the EGPWS warning."
