windroe flight 836 is heading to an airport in the norweigan sea its a twin otter to vaeroy airport on approach to runway 25 with 11 people on board. it was the only time the captqain flew into the airport as the crew prepare to land they know the airport has unpredictable winds they have the runway in sight it hits turbulance and the captain takes control and they do a go around but they hit a downdraft and its tough to recover and they roll over heading towards the mountains but barely recover but the pilots are exhausted and decide to divert to rust this leads to a safe landing somehow with the pilots upset at what happened and they try and make the airport safer with wind speed limits and install wind speed monitors but this doesn’t stop another accident for the airline flight 839 takes off from the airport on easter weekeend 1990 with only 5 people on board cleared to 5000 feet with 34 knot gusts as they take off at 243pm as they raise the flaps 10 seconds after takeoff a strange noise is heard and this leads to control issues which they can’t identify and the nose drops sealing the fate of all on board 63 seconds after takeoff.only 6 and a half kms from the airport the captains remains are never found. an investigator from canda is shocked at the closeness of the mountains. the controller doesn’t report anything wrong and a short turn around of 15 minutes and she explains the winds and they turned into the clouds just before they crashed and a distresss signal and a bang. the impact way was obvious from the wreckage as it was nose first it wasn’t engine failure. they suspect correctly its a problem in the tail but initally suspect it was in the crash but there is an issue with the connecting rod and send it to metalurgy. they look into the planes history and it was purchased 14 years ago with maitence day of hte crash with no issue. there was confusion over the banding from sideways bending which is highly unusal making them think it broke in flight uncontroably which caused the elevator to break in flight. the cvr reveals when it broke as the flaps went up the crew knew something was wrong immediately and they can’t figure out the source of a cllattering sound they also notice that the propellers are out of sync and it was obviously turbulance from the wind and the crash was only 10 seconds after the upset so the crew had no chance. the mountains and winds are suspected and they investigate it and look into the near miss 15 mounths earlier that recovered which was a similar altitude. they figure out there were no wind readings on the mountain at the time of the crash as it was taken down due to repair and never reinstalled and was taken out of service 3 days before the accident meaning that taking off was risky and out of range. the crew would have been nervous with the limits being out of limits. but decide to take off when its calm according to the wind socks and the weather clearing. and figure out the winds were strong enough to destroy the plane. they consider get there itis as a cause that they wanted to get home quickly. the airlines decision to cancel flights due to the wind change was also a factor and the passengers weren’t happy with goverenment also paying them to fly there and bribed them to keep the flights going. they question the airport being built there which was only 4 years before the crash in fact the airline did not recomend it but the goverenment did. the airport has shut as a result of the crash and is the shortest lived airport probably in the world.
next time no idea.
Harrison’s world 