![]() UPS also sent its own investigation team. The government of Bahrain decided to conduct its own investigation into the accident. ![]() On September 7, the authorities discovered the flight data recorder. Boeing offered to send a team to the United Arab Emirates to provide technical assistance in the investigation process.įollowing the recovery of the cockpit voice recorder, the GCAA issued a preliminary report on the September 5, 2010. The National Transportation Safety Board announced that it would dispatch an aviation investigator to assist the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in its investigation of the crash. Other than ATC, many initial reports came from pilots working for Emirates who were living in the community. The aircraft hit right wing first and skidded a few meters, and exploded in a fireball, killing both pilots. The aircraft finally slammed into the ground at a shallow angle and at high speed in an unpopulated area between the Emirates Road and Al Ain Highway, barely missing Dubai Silicon Oasis. Radar contact was lost shortly thereafter at 15:42 UTC. Bell attempted to turn towards Sharjah International Airport but unknowingly turned in the wrong direction. The aircraft passed over the airport before making a tight turn. The aircraft was too high on the approach and the gear did not extend. The co-pilot was instructed to land on the airport's runway 12L. It was believed that the fire had also cut off the oxygen supply to the spare oxygen mask, leaving Captain Lampe with no oxygen left to return to the pilot seat and fly the plane. ![]() Captain Lampe's oxygen mask failed and he left his seat to get a spare oxygen mask-from that point he was never heard on the CVR again. Although they were offered a diversion to Doha, Qatar, the captain made the decision to return to Dubai. The pilots were under the control of Bahrain's air traffic control, and they could not initially contact Dubai air traffic control due to the thick smoke in the cockpit. Crashįlight 6 departed from Dubai International at 14:53 UTC and at 15:15 the crew reported a fire in the cockpit when the aircraft was around 120 nautical miles (220 km) west-northwest of Dubai, and an emergency was declared shortly afterwards. Both crew members were based in UPS's Anchorage, Alaska pilot base. The captain was 48-year-old Douglas Lampe of Louisville, Kentucky, and the first officer, 38-year-old Matthew Bell from Sanford, Florida. Before the crash, it was among the newest (#1,393 of 1,418 the 26th from the last) Boeing 747s built before 747-8 series. It had flown for more than 10,000 hours, and had a major inspection performed in June 2010. ![]() Investigators in the UK, meanwhile, traced a fire this month in an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 at London Heathrow International Airport to the lithium batteries in the airplane’s emergency locator transmitters.The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 747-400F, registered N571UP and was delivered to UPS Airlines in 2007. Lithium backup batteries in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner overheated aboard two airplanes and prompted the FAA to ground the fleet for months earlier this year. In a recent report issued by the FAA in conjunction with Transport Canada, the agencies predicted there will be an average of six cargo plane crashes between now and 2021, with four of them likely to be caused by battery fires. The NTSB held a two-day meeting in April to explore the dangers of these types of batteries. Investigators say the crash highlights the risks posed by lithium batteries, which are prone to overheating leading to intense fires. Both crew members were killed when the 747-44AF crashed on Sept. Unless something is done to prevent similar disasters, the FAA now says such crashes are all but inevitable in the future.Ī 322-page report issued by the UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority determined that heat from the fire disabled the crew’s oxygen system and that smoke filled the cockpit within three minutes of the first warning, obscuring the pilots’ view. Accident investigators have traced a fire that destroyed a UPS Boeing 747 in the United Arab Emirates in 2010 to the lithium batteries being carried in the cargo hold. ![]()
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