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Chapter 420: A Deadly Solution, Nuts And Bolts, And A Deadly Delivery!
"Hello there viewers...Keiko here again...*Keiko proceeds to go and say this while traditionally bowing to the viewers as usual. To which Keiko then proceeds to go and bring her attention and eyesight back up again, in order to go and continue to address the viewers. Keiko also now proceeds to go and briefly clear her throat, as Keiko then proceeds to go and continue, to properly address the viewers*...
Now then viewers, for this chapter I will once again be covering several more transportation related accidents in history...And for this particular chapter viewers as like the last one, we will be covering another three of them...
And each of them, as shown by the chapter title of this particular chapter, is going to be covering three aviation accidents, one of which was attributed in some way, to a case of 'pilot error leading to a stall'...
Another of which was attributed in some way, to a case of 'poor maintenance leading to a pitch control failure on takeoff'...
And finally an aviation accident that was attributed in some way, to 'an in flight cargo fire'...
Now then viewers, lets begin with the first of the three aviation accidents...
And for this one, we will start by going all the way back, to December 28, 2014...
And on this particular day...Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501...Which was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, China. And on this particular day, the aircraft that was being used to operate the flight, was an Airbus A320-216...
And on board Flight 8501, were two pilots, 5 flight attendants, and 155 passengers...
The captain of Flight 8501, was 53 year old Iriyanto, who was an Indonesian national, and had a total of 20,537 flying hours, of which 4,687 hours were on the Airbus A320. The captain began his career with the Indonesian Air Force, who graduated from pilot school in 1983. He took early retirement from the air force in the mid-1990s to join Merpati Nusantara Airlines, and later worked for Adam Air and Sriwijaya Air, before joining Indonesia AirAsia. And at the time of this accident, he had 6,100 flying hours...
The first officer of flight 8501, was 46 year old Rémi Emmanuel Plesel, who was a French national, and had a total of 2,247 flying hours, including 1,367 hours on the Airbus A320. He was originally from Le Marigot, Martinique, and had studied and worked as an engineer in Paris. At 44, he left his previous job to fulfill a childhood dream of becoming a pilot...
And as for what wound up happening with regard to the cause and the crash that would result involving Flight 8501?...
Well the flight was normal until around 6 am when an electronic centralized aircraft monitor memo was displayed, along with a master caution light, to indicate a fault with the rudder limiter system. Captain Iriyanto read the actions for fixing this failure, and rebooted the aircraft's two Flight Augmentation Computers. Only the same fault wound up showing up again at 6:09 am, and the captain wound up fixing it in the same way...
At 6:11 am, the pilots turned fifteen degrees to the left to avoid inclement weather, and contacted Jakarta Air Traffic Control, to request a climb to 38,000 feet for the same reason. The controller could not give immediate permission for this due to other aircraft in the vicinity, and thus wound up instructing them to wait...
While the pilots were waiting for the permission to climb, the rudder limiter problem wound up occurring for a third time, and for the third time the captain reset the flight augmentation computers. Only for it to pop up again, only this time Captain Iriyanto decided to reset the flight augmentation computers circuit breakers. And this was because Iriyanto had previously seen this action being performed by a ground engineer, and believed that it was acceptable to do so in flight. Which spoiler alert here viewers, it wasn't...
And so when Iriyanto reset the circuit breakers during the flight, this wound up having immediate consequences, as this action not only wound up resetting the flight augmentation computers. But it also wound up disconnecting the autopilot and auto throttle, and the flight control law changed from Normal to Alternate. This wound up with the aircraft to rolling to the left, and by the time First Officer Plesel reacted to this it was banked at 54 degrees...
And to make matters worse Plesel, possibly spatially disoriented due to the roll sensation, over-corrected twice. First by making a sharp right bank input and then a sharp left bank input. After that, Plesel made a nose up input on his side stick, which caused the aircraft to enter a steep climb at a 24 degree nose up pitch. And in just 54 seconds, the aircraft climbed from 32,000 feet to 38,500 feet, exceeding a climb rate of 10,000 feet per minute. It then entered a stall, and started descending at a rate of up to 20,000 feet per minute. The aircraft also began a turn to the left, forming at least one complete circle before disappearing from radar. And before impact with the Java Sea, the flight data recorder stopped recording. With the cockpit voice recorder stopping one second later. The aircraft then crashed into the Java Sea and was destroyed...
With the impact killing all 155 passengers and 7 crew members on board instantly...
And now viewers, we will be moving onto the second of the three aviation accidents of this chapter...And for this one, we will be going all the way back, to February 16, 2000...
And on this particular date Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17, which at the time was being operated by a Douglas DC-8-71F...
And was operating from Sacramento Mather Airport, in Mather, California, to James M. Cox Dayton International Airport, in Dayton, Ohio...
And on this particular cargo flight, were three pilots...
The Captain was 43 year old Kevin Stables, who had logged 13,329 flight hours and 2,128 hours on the DC-8. The First Officer was 35 year old George Land, who had logged 4,511 flight hours and 2,080 on the DC-8. And the Flight Engineer was 38 year old Russell Hicks, who had logged 9,775 flight hours and 675 on the DC-8...
And as for the cause and the resulting crash involving Emery Flight 17? Well immediately after the aircraft lifted off from the runway, the aircraft then entered a left turn, only for the first officer to quickly state that they would like to return to Sacramento. This was then quickly followed by the aircraft's engine speed decreasing and the stick shaker activating. The captain then declared an emergency, and believed that a load shift had occurred. The aircraft then began to move erratically, and the elevator deflection and the bank angle began to decrease and increase, respectively. And the aircraft then began to descend...
The captain then repeated the emergency declaration as the engine's speed began to increase. And at the time, the aircraft was descending with a steepening bank of 11 degrees. But thankfully, the crew then added power and the aircraft began to climb again. But as the aircraft continued to climb, the bank angle began to increase to the left. And the captain then stated that the aircraft 'had an extreme center of gravity problem'...
The aircraft continued to fly in a northwesterly heading, with the crew trying to stabilize the aircraft as it began to sway to the left and to the right. But tragically, the ground proximity warning system then started to sound. And at 7:51, the aircraft's left wing contacted a concrete and steel support column for an overhang attached to a two-story building. Which was located adjacent to the southeast edge of a salvage yard. And unfortunately, the DC-8 then wound up crashing onto the salvage yard. And all three crew members on board were killed instantly...
And as for the cause to the crash of Flight 17? Well as it turns out viewers, when this particular aircraft had gone in for maintenance on its elevator controls before the crash. Someone forgot to put some the control cable parts back in. So in this case, at least one of the parts that was supposed to secure the elevator control cable to the elevator, wasn't placed back in...
Which in this case viewers, was what wound up leading to the cable disconnecting from the elevator on takeoff, and wound up jamming the elevator in place...
And now viewers, we will be moving onto the third and final aviation accident of this chapter...And for this one, we will be moving a bit more forward in time, to September 3, 2010...
And on this particular date, UPS Airlines Flight 6. Which was an international cargo flight operated by UPS Airlines. And at the time, the aircraft being used to operate the route, was a Boeing 747-44AF, which at the time was flying from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to Cologne, in Germany...
And on board UPS Airlines Flight 6, were 2 pilots...
The Captain was 48 year old Douglas Lampe, of Louisville, Kentucky. Lampe had been flying for UPS Airlines for 15 years and had over 11,000 flight hours, with 4,000 hours flying on the Boeing 747-400...
And the First Officer was 38 year old Matthew Bell, from Sanford, Florida. Bell had 4 years and 5,500 hours respectively, as well as 77 hours on the 747-400...
And as for the cause of the crash of UPS Airlines Flight 6? Well 22 minutes into the flight, the aircraft's engine indicating and crew alerting system or EICAS for short. Wound up displaying the following message 'FIRE MAIN DK FWD,' or 'Fire Main Deck Forward'...
Now I am sure that I don't need to explain why a fire on board an aircraft is one of the worst possible things that can happen on board an aircraft. As was in the case of ValuJet Flight 592, which was covered in a previous chapter...
But anyway the crew reported a fire in the cockpit when the aircraft, and wound up declaring an emergency shortly after...
This was then followed by Lampe disengaging the autopilot in order for him to fly the plane manually. But upon him doing so, he discovered that he had no elevator control. As the fire had burned through the protective fire resistant liner that covered the cargo hold, and thus had destroyed the primary flight control system, and thus crippled the 747. And to make matters worse, a short time later Lampe's oxygen mask failed and he relinquished command of the plane to First Officer Bell. Captain Lampe then left his seat to go and retrieve the emergency reserve oxygen mask, which was stowed behind his seat. Unfortunately, he wound up losing consciousness soon after as a result of hypoxia after inhaling the acrid smoke, and he collapsed on the floor of the flight deck...
And as if this wasn't bad enough, the aircraft was too high on the approach to land on Runway 12L at Dubai, and on top of this, the gear did not extend. And as a result, Flight 6 wound up passing over the airport before making a tight turn. And tragically, the aircraft wound up striking the ground at a shallow angle and at high speed in an unpopulated area between the Emirates Road and Al Ain Highway. With the right wing hitting the ground first and the aircraft then skidded for a few meters, and then exploded into a fireball. Which wound up killing both Bell and the unconscious Lampe instantly...
And as for the cause of the crash of UPS Flight 6? Well as it turns out viewers, the cause is due to the very cargo that wound up causing the fire on board UPS Flight 6. Which in this case was a cargo pallet that contained more than 81,000 lithium batteries and other combustible materials...
And so the moral of these accidents viewers, is to always keep your wits about you when you are on board an aircraft...
As you never know when it can wind up leading an accident such as these...
And finally viewers, though I have said this in many of these same chapters before...
I will once again reiterate, that I don't mean any sort of disrespect, to those whose lives were lost by either this tragedy, or those like it...
As the only reason why I am mentioning them in these fanfics, is to help preserve the legacy of those who were injured or killed in these tragedies...
And also, to make sure that those who lost people in these tragedies, have some sort of another way to remember their loved ones...
And now viewers, this now marks the end of this non action packed filler chapter...But you can look forward to things getting right back into the action in the next chapter...And so viewers, from me, Angel Bluebell, Zachary, Catherine, and everyone else in The Four Aces Alliance...We all look forward to seeing you lot in the next chapter...So viewers, see you all there, okay?...*Keiko proceeds to go and currently say this, and this is while Keiko is also proceeding to go and smile with both of her brown eyes closed. And this is also while Keiko also currently has her head tilted to one side, in her still usual and still very cute looking manner as well*"
"Hello there viewers...Keiko here again...*Keiko proceeds to go and say this while traditionally bowing to the viewers as usual. To which Keiko then proceeds to go and bring her attention and eyesight back up again, in order to go and continue to address the viewers. Keiko also now proceeds to go and briefly clear her throat, as Keiko then proceeds to go and continue, to properly address the viewers*...
Now then viewers, for this chapter I will once again be covering several more transportation related accidents in history...And for this particular chapter viewers as like the last one, we will be covering another three of them...
And each of them, as shown by the chapter title of this particular chapter, is going to be covering three aviation accidents, one of which was attributed in some way, to a case of 'pilot error leading to a stall'...
Another of which was attributed in some way, to a case of 'poor maintenance leading to a pitch control failure on takeoff'...
And finally an aviation accident that was attributed in some way, to 'an in flight cargo fire'...
Now then viewers, lets begin with the first of the three aviation accidents...
And for this one, we will start by going all the way back, to December 28, 2014...
And on this particular day...Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501...Which was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore, China. And on this particular day, the aircraft that was being used to operate the flight, was an Airbus A320-216...
And on board Flight 8501, were two pilots, 5 flight attendants, and 155 passengers...
The captain of Flight 8501, was 53 year old Iriyanto, who was an Indonesian national, and had a total of 20,537 flying hours, of which 4,687 hours were on the Airbus A320. The captain began his career with the Indonesian Air Force, who graduated from pilot school in 1983. He took early retirement from the air force in the mid-1990s to join Merpati Nusantara Airlines, and later worked for Adam Air and Sriwijaya Air, before joining Indonesia AirAsia. And at the time of this accident, he had 6,100 flying hours...
The first officer of flight 8501, was 46 year old Rémi Emmanuel Plesel, who was a French national, and had a total of 2,247 flying hours, including 1,367 hours on the Airbus A320. He was originally from Le Marigot, Martinique, and had studied and worked as an engineer in Paris. At 44, he left his previous job to fulfill a childhood dream of becoming a pilot...
And as for what wound up happening with regard to the cause and the crash that would result involving Flight 8501?...
Well the flight was normal until around 6 am when an electronic centralized aircraft monitor memo was displayed, along with a master caution light, to indicate a fault with the rudder limiter system. Captain Iriyanto read the actions for fixing this failure, and rebooted the aircraft's two Flight Augmentation Computers. Only the same fault wound up showing up again at 6:09 am, and the captain wound up fixing it in the same way...
At 6:11 am, the pilots turned fifteen degrees to the left to avoid inclement weather, and contacted Jakarta Air Traffic Control, to request a climb to 38,000 feet for the same reason. The controller could not give immediate permission for this due to other aircraft in the vicinity, and thus wound up instructing them to wait...
While the pilots were waiting for the permission to climb, the rudder limiter problem wound up occurring for a third time, and for the third time the captain reset the flight augmentation computers. Only for it to pop up again, only this time Captain Iriyanto decided to reset the flight augmentation computers circuit breakers. And this was because Iriyanto had previously seen this action being performed by a ground engineer, and believed that it was acceptable to do so in flight. Which spoiler alert here viewers, it wasn't...
And so when Iriyanto reset the circuit breakers during the flight, this wound up having immediate consequences, as this action not only wound up resetting the flight augmentation computers. But it also wound up disconnecting the autopilot and auto throttle, and the flight control law changed from Normal to Alternate. This wound up with the aircraft to rolling to the left, and by the time First Officer Plesel reacted to this it was banked at 54 degrees...
And to make matters worse Plesel, possibly spatially disoriented due to the roll sensation, over-corrected twice. First by making a sharp right bank input and then a sharp left bank input. After that, Plesel made a nose up input on his side stick, which caused the aircraft to enter a steep climb at a 24 degree nose up pitch. And in just 54 seconds, the aircraft climbed from 32,000 feet to 38,500 feet, exceeding a climb rate of 10,000 feet per minute. It then entered a stall, and started descending at a rate of up to 20,000 feet per minute. The aircraft also began a turn to the left, forming at least one complete circle before disappearing from radar. And before impact with the Java Sea, the flight data recorder stopped recording. With the cockpit voice recorder stopping one second later. The aircraft then crashed into the Java Sea and was destroyed...
With the impact killing all 155 passengers and 7 crew members on board instantly...
And now viewers, we will be moving onto the second of the three aviation accidents of this chapter...And for this one, we will be going all the way back, to February 16, 2000...
And on this particular date Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17, which at the time was being operated by a Douglas DC-8-71F...
And was operating from Sacramento Mather Airport, in Mather, California, to James M. Cox Dayton International Airport, in Dayton, Ohio...
And on this particular cargo flight, were three pilots...
The Captain was 43 year old Kevin Stables, who had logged 13,329 flight hours and 2,128 hours on the DC-8. The First Officer was 35 year old George Land, who had logged 4,511 flight hours and 2,080 on the DC-8. And the Flight Engineer was 38 year old Russell Hicks, who had logged 9,775 flight hours and 675 on the DC-8...
And as for the cause and the resulting crash involving Emery Flight 17? Well immediately after the aircraft lifted off from the runway, the aircraft then entered a left turn, only for the first officer to quickly state that they would like to return to Sacramento. This was then quickly followed by the aircraft's engine speed decreasing and the stick shaker activating. The captain then declared an emergency, and believed that a load shift had occurred. The aircraft then began to move erratically, and the elevator deflection and the bank angle began to decrease and increase, respectively. And the aircraft then began to descend...
The captain then repeated the emergency declaration as the engine's speed began to increase. And at the time, the aircraft was descending with a steepening bank of 11 degrees. But thankfully, the crew then added power and the aircraft began to climb again. But as the aircraft continued to climb, the bank angle began to increase to the left. And the captain then stated that the aircraft 'had an extreme center of gravity problem'...
The aircraft continued to fly in a northwesterly heading, with the crew trying to stabilize the aircraft as it began to sway to the left and to the right. But tragically, the ground proximity warning system then started to sound. And at 7:51, the aircraft's left wing contacted a concrete and steel support column for an overhang attached to a two-story building. Which was located adjacent to the southeast edge of a salvage yard. And unfortunately, the DC-8 then wound up crashing onto the salvage yard. And all three crew members on board were killed instantly...
And as for the cause to the crash of Flight 17? Well as it turns out viewers, when this particular aircraft had gone in for maintenance on its elevator controls before the crash. Someone forgot to put some the control cable parts back in. So in this case, at least one of the parts that was supposed to secure the elevator control cable to the elevator, wasn't placed back in...
Which in this case viewers, was what wound up leading to the cable disconnecting from the elevator on takeoff, and wound up jamming the elevator in place...
And now viewers, we will be moving onto the third and final aviation accident of this chapter...And for this one, we will be moving a bit more forward in time, to September 3, 2010...
And on this particular date, UPS Airlines Flight 6. Which was an international cargo flight operated by UPS Airlines. And at the time, the aircraft being used to operate the route, was a Boeing 747-44AF, which at the time was flying from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to Cologne, in Germany...
And on board UPS Airlines Flight 6, were 2 pilots...
The Captain was 48 year old Douglas Lampe, of Louisville, Kentucky. Lampe had been flying for UPS Airlines for 15 years and had over 11,000 flight hours, with 4,000 hours flying on the Boeing 747-400...
And the First Officer was 38 year old Matthew Bell, from Sanford, Florida. Bell had 4 years and 5,500 hours respectively, as well as 77 hours on the 747-400...
And as for the cause of the crash of UPS Airlines Flight 6? Well 22 minutes into the flight, the aircraft's engine indicating and crew alerting system or EICAS for short. Wound up displaying the following message 'FIRE MAIN DK FWD,' or 'Fire Main Deck Forward'...
Now I am sure that I don't need to explain why a fire on board an aircraft is one of the worst possible things that can happen on board an aircraft. As was in the case of ValuJet Flight 592, which was covered in a previous chapter...
But anyway the crew reported a fire in the cockpit when the aircraft, and wound up declaring an emergency shortly after...
This was then followed by Lampe disengaging the autopilot in order for him to fly the plane manually. But upon him doing so, he discovered that he had no elevator control. As the fire had burned through the protective fire resistant liner that covered the cargo hold, and thus had destroyed the primary flight control system, and thus crippled the 747. And to make matters worse, a short time later Lampe's oxygen mask failed and he relinquished command of the plane to First Officer Bell. Captain Lampe then left his seat to go and retrieve the emergency reserve oxygen mask, which was stowed behind his seat. Unfortunately, he wound up losing consciousness soon after as a result of hypoxia after inhaling the acrid smoke, and he collapsed on the floor of the flight deck...
And as if this wasn't bad enough, the aircraft was too high on the approach to land on Runway 12L at Dubai, and on top of this, the gear did not extend. And as a result, Flight 6 wound up passing over the airport before making a tight turn. And tragically, the aircraft wound up striking the ground at a shallow angle and at high speed in an unpopulated area between the Emirates Road and Al Ain Highway. With the right wing hitting the ground first and the aircraft then skidded for a few meters, and then exploded into a fireball. Which wound up killing both Bell and the unconscious Lampe instantly...
And as for the cause of the crash of UPS Flight 6? Well as it turns out viewers, the cause is due to the very cargo that wound up causing the fire on board UPS Flight 6. Which in this case was a cargo pallet that contained more than 81,000 lithium batteries and other combustible materials...
And so the moral of these accidents viewers, is to always keep your wits about you when you are on board an aircraft...
As you never know when it can wind up leading an accident such as these...
And finally viewers, though I have said this in many of these same chapters before...
I will once again reiterate, that I don't mean any sort of disrespect, to those whose lives were lost by either this tragedy, or those like it...
As the only reason why I am mentioning them in these fanfics, is to help preserve the legacy of those who were injured or killed in these tragedies...
And also, to make sure that those who lost people in these tragedies, have some sort of another way to remember their loved ones...
And now viewers, this now marks the end of this non action packed filler chapter...But you can look forward to things getting right back into the action in the next chapter...And so viewers, from me, Angel Bluebell, Zachary, Catherine, and everyone else in The Four Aces Alliance...We all look forward to seeing you lot in the next chapter...So viewers, see you all there, okay?...*Keiko proceeds to go and currently say this, and this is while Keiko is also proceeding to go and smile with both of her brown eyes closed. And this is also while Keiko also currently has her head tilted to one side, in her still usual and still very cute looking manner as well*"