Gol Airlines Boeing 737 And Embraer Legacy 600 Business Jet Midair Collision - LEGACY 600 CVR AUDIO

http://AviationExplorer.com - COLLISION OCCURS AT 4:38

On September 29th 2006, a Boeing airliner and an Embraer business jet collided almost head-on at 37,000 feet (11,000 m), approximately midway between Brasilia and Manaus, near the town of Matupá, 750 kilometers (470 mi) southeast of Manaus.

The Embraer jet, despite serious damage to the left horizontal stabilizer and left winglet, was able to continue flying, though its autopilot disengaged and it required an unusual amount of force on the yoke to keep the wings level.

With radio relay assistance from Polar Air Cargo Flight 71, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft flying in the area at the time, the Embraer's crew successfully landed the crippled jet at Cachimbo Airport, part of Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso, a large military complex of the Brazilian Air Force at about 160 kilometers (100 mi) from the collision point.

The Boeing suffered major structural damage, losing nearly half of its left wing. This caused it to nosedive and enter an uncontrollable spin, which quickly led to an in-flight breakup and crash into an area of dense rainforest, 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of the municipality of Peixoto de Azevedo. All 154 passengers and crew on board were killed and the aircraft was destroyed, with the wreckage scattered in pieces around the crash site.

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (ICAO: GLO 1907) was a Boeing 737-8EH, registration PR-GTD, on a scheduled passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil, to Rio de Janeiro. On 29 September 2006.

The accident was investigated by both the Brazilian Air Force's Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (Portuguese: Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos (CENIPA) and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), with a final report issued on 10 December 2008. CENIPA concluded that the accident was caused by errors committed both by air traffic controllers and by the American pilots, while the NTSB determined that all pilots acted properly and were placed on a collision course by a variety of "individual and institutional" air traffic control errors

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[nfcpro]

that is some scary shit

[GamleErik100]

@mar40jrk

Nice try trying to shift all the fault over on the Legacy pilots. The ATC people were clearly at fault as well, even much more so than the pilots.

[icemachine79]

@mar40jrk If you listen to the beginning of the Legacy's CVR you can hear the pilots describing some of the problems with Brazil's ATC. They give instructions in Portuguese (against ICAO and Brazil ATC rules) and don't use standard phraseology which is also contrary to ICAO rules.  The pilots even mentioned the fact that ATC had problems giving them altitude clearances. Brazil had (has) a poor communications infrastructure. They're lucky more mid-air collisions didn't (don't) happen.

[icemachine79]

@mar40jrk ICAO as well as Brazil's own air regs also state ATC instructions always supersede flight plans. The Legacy pilots told Brasilia ATC they were at FL370 after they'd already passed Brasilia and ATC didn't tell them to descend. That was *before* communications were lost over Amazonia. Bad training by the Brazilian AF and poor working conditions for Brazil's ATC controllers are to blame for this accident, not the pilots of either jet. Also the TCAS problem was incidental.

[mrizzardo]

@mar40jrk Incredibly that ATC had no idea of what was happening in their own airspace

[mar40jrk]

And the general ICAO-Brazil rules is to follow the flight plan in case of communication failure... (FL370 to Brasilia and FL 360 since Brasilia to Teres position in Amazonia and fly up to FL380 to destin, Manaus, AM, Brazil. Flight plan has priority in bad or failure communication APP.

[mar40jrk]

The pilots of the Legacy didn't have knowlege about the aircraft they're flying. Incredible two pilots don't know where to turn on TCAS; incredible they don't know the area they're flying - if Manaus, Brazil where at north ou south (!); incredible they don't respect the airway rules of Brazil (360.000 ft who flies to north; 370.000 ft who flies to south - elementar) and incredible they don't know where to turn on transponder. Two inexperients guys flying in a comercial airways, danger to people.

[RaedGamer]

06:15

[MultiRgam]

Os pilotos do jato legacy falharam gravemente ao deixar o transponder desligado.

Devem ter suas licenças caçadas por oferecer perigo `aviação aerea !

[workingstiff76]

After seeing this on Discovery Channel I'd have tried to nurse the Jet to South Texas if it was still flyable instead of landing and going to a Brazilian Prison.