Air Crash Daily | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 Aftermath Footage @AirCrashDaily | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
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๐ ๐ผ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฑ was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York City to Albany, operated by a Fairchild FH-227 (Reg. N7818M) on ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฏ, ๐ญ๐ต๐ณ๐ฎ.
While on final approach to Albany's runway 01 the flight encountered problems. The weather at the airport was reported to the flight crew as "ceiling indefinite, 1,200 feet obscured, 2 miles visibility in light snow, surface winds (from) 360 degrees (north) at 9 knots". As the plane reached 8ยฝ miles from the airport, the flight crew contacted Mohawk's operations center via radio and informed them that the left propeller was 'hung up' in the cruise pitch lock, which would prevent normal thrust reduction on that side, needed for landing.
At about 5 miles out, the flight crew notified Albany Approach Controlย that they were trying to perform an emergency 'feathering' of the left propeller. As they continued to descend and struggle with the propeller, they advised the controller that they were going to "land short". The plane subsequently crashed into a house 3ยฝ miles south of the runway. 16 people aboard and one person in the house were killed.
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ:
"The inability of the crew to feather the left propeller, in combination with the descent of the aircraft below the prescribed minimum altitudes for the approach. The Board is unable to determine why the left propeller could not be feathered. Contributing causal factors for the nonstandard approach were the captain's preoccupation with a cruise pitch lock malfunction, the first officer's failure to adhere to company altitude awareness procedures, and the captain's failure to delegate any meaningful responsibilities to the copilot which resulted in a lack of effective task sharing during the emergency. Also, the Board was unable to determine why the propeller pitch lock malfunctioned during the descent."
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๐ ๐ผ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฑ was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York City to Albany, operated by a Fairchild FH-227 (Reg. N7818M) on ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฏ, ๐ญ๐ต๐ณ๐ฎ.
While on final approach to Albany's runway 01 the flight encountered problems. The weather at the airport was reported to the flight crew as "ceiling indefinite, 1,200 feet obscured, 2 miles visibility in light snow, surface winds (from) 360 degrees (north) at 9 knots". As the plane reached 8ยฝ miles from the airport, the flight crew contacted Mohawk's operations center via radio and informed them that the left propeller was 'hung up' in the cruise pitch lock, which would prevent normal thrust reduction on that side, needed for landing.
At about 5 miles out, the flight crew notified Albany Approach Controlย that they were trying to perform an emergency 'feathering' of the left propeller. As they continued to descend and struggle with the propeller, they advised the controller that they were going to "land short". The plane subsequently crashed into a house 3ยฝ miles south of the runway. 16 people aboard and one person in the house were killed.
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ:
"The inability of the crew to feather the left propeller, in combination with the descent of the aircraft below the prescribed minimum altitudes for the approach. The Board is unable to determine why the left propeller could not be feathered. Contributing causal factors for the nonstandard approach were the captain's preoccupation with a cruise pitch lock malfunction, the first officer's failure to adhere to company altitude awareness procedures, and the captain's failure to delegate any meaningful responsibilities to the copilot which resulted in a lack of effective task sharing during the emergency. Also, the Board was unable to determine why the propeller pitch lock malfunctioned during the descent."
![2004 Macedonian Government Beechcraft Super King Air [Z3-BAB] crash CVR Recording](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P-33Ag2c-zI/hqdefault.jpg "2004 Macedonian Government Beechcraft Super King Air [Z3-BAB] crash CVR Recording
On ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฐ, a Beechcraft Super King Air (Reg. Z3-BAB) departed Skopje on an official flight to Mostar, carrying 2 pilots and 7 passengers, among them Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia. Trajkovski was flying to Mostar with members of his government to take part to an economic conference.
The plane departed Skopje at 06:48. At 07:46, ACC Zagreb transferred the plane to APP Mostar. At 07:51, the flight crew reported overhead IAF DIRUK. After IAF DIRUK, the flight crew performed a left turn for 180ยฐ and established heading 146ยฐ, at 4,700 feet. During last 60ยฐ of the turn the flight crew noticed that indications of DME and VOR were lost. The flight crew reported to APP Mostar that they do not have indication of VOR. After 18 seconds co-pilot confirmed to the captain that indicator VOR/DME has been established again and that everything is under control what was conveyed to APP Mostar by the captain.
At distance of 13 NM to VOR/DME MSR, after the approved by the captain, co-pilot disengaged autopilot and had taken the control of the plane. After passing 7 NM to VOR/DME MSR the plane continued with descending on assigned radial 326. And 31 seconds later the plane reached the altitude of 1,810 feet (MDA). The co-pilot then asked for permission from the captain to continue with descent, on which captain did not reply but ordered to co-pilot to increase the power. After that the plane impacted the tree and right after the ground as well.
๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ:
Aircraft accident of Z3-BAB is caused by:
Non-compliance with published approach procedure at Mostar airport, regarding distance and altitude, resulted in Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT).
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฏ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐:
โ Inadequate briefing of the flight crew for performing the flight,
โ Check list was not consulted,
โ Lack of Crew Resources Management (CRM) practice during flight,
โ Flight crew decision to land at Mostar airport, despite cloud ceiling being below MDA,
โ Flight crew decision to continue flight after loss of VOR/DME indication.")
