Tegus plane crash

[Sickbag]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/in ... duras.html

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A passenger plane skidded off a runway at Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras on Friday as it was trying to land and veered onto a road, killing at least one of those on board, officials said.

A local manager of El Salvador's TACA airline, Armando Funez, told Honduran television there were 142 passengers on board the plane, which was arriving from San Salvador when it zig-zagged off the runway and smacked into some cars.

Local media said several people were trapped in cars underneath the plane, which also hit a small wooden food store.

A doctor at the hospital treating those injured told Honduran television that one of the passengers, who he said was a director of a regional Central American integration bank, had died.

"I am thanking God I am alive -- there are other passengers who are in a very bad way," survivor Roberto Sosa told Honduran radio.

The plane was trying to land in heavy fog and circled the airport several times before descending, one passenger said.

[Sickbag]

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/ ... n_Honduras

three fatalities reported, it was an TACA A-320, the photo from the link above shows it lying in a deep storm channel, lucky it didn't ignite.

[Procede]

Weirdly enough the plane involved in the acident, EI-TAF is registered as being 'owned' by Martinair Holland. Pictures show it being in Martinair colors up until March 2008, though it apparently isn't anymore now.

[Verbal]

Cheap composites again!

[einesellesenie]

Apropos, the Brazilian ambassador in Honduras died in this accident: Ms. Jeanne Chantal Neele.

Husband is in the hospital.

http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2008/0 ... 596341.asp

[Gabriel]

Please, tell me that it wasn't mishandling of the thrust levers again. We know very well by now what happens in an Airbus when at least one thrust lever is not fully iddled on landing, do we? (the airplane won't aknowledge it's on ground, spoilers won't deploy and there's no way to deploy them manually, autobrakes won't kick in, the autothrust would try to increase thrust to keep the IAS set for approach, and the airplane will overrun the runway). In the past this mishandling of the thrust levers was prone to happen in combination with a MELled reverser. There wasn't a MELled reverser here, right?

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[Princess Leia]

Look at how the fuselage broke up. It is quite obviously metal fatigue....

[VectorForFood]

Supposedly the weather was quite poor fog and such at the airport, this was one of several approach attempts.

Early guess of breaking out of cloud late, landing long?

[Dmmoore]

Please, tell me that it wasn't mishandling of the thrust levers again. We know very well by now what happens in an Airbus when at least one thrust lever is not fully iddled on landing, do we? (the airplane won't aknowledge it's on ground, spoilers won't deploy and there's no way to deploy them manually, autobrakes won't kick in, the autothrust would try to increase thrust to keep the IAS set for approach, and the airplane will overrun the runway). In the past this mishandling of the thrust levers was prone to happen in combination with a MELled reverser. There wasn't a MELled reverser here, right?

This does not appear to be a throttle related event. The aircraft was slowing normally before exiting the runway.