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Sud Aviation Caravelle 10R accident report

Saturday 4 November 1967 Iberia Caravelle 10R EC-BDD c/n 202 “ Jesus Gurudi ”

ISP Flight IB062 from Malaga (AGP) to London Heathrow (LHR) with 7 crew and 30 passengers. Descended to low on approach to LHR and impacted trees on Blackdown Hill. The aircraft continued for hundreds of yards, passing across a meadow where it killed 65 grazing sheep. It then broke through a large hedge and parts of the aircraft fell off destroying a garage, and damaging parts of the roof of Upper Blackdown House as

the aircraft disintegrated. No cause could be found why the aircraft continued to descent at a steady rate over a period of 13.5 minutes. YOM : 1966

Airframe hrs : cycles : engines : JT8D-7. All 37 people onboard died in the crash.

location : Blackdown Hill, Haslemere, UK +- 50m 51°03’11”N 0°41’20”W

Monday 5 March 1973 Aviaco Caravelle 10R EC-BID c/n 228

Ferry flight from Madrid (MAD) to Funchal (FNC), Madeira isla with 3 crew and no passengers. Stalled when turning for final approach to runway 06 at Funchal and struck the water. The wreckage sank to a depth of 740m and was not recovered. YOM : 1967

engines : JT8D-7. All 3 crew died in the crash.

location : +- 500m 32°38’53”N 16°45’57”W

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Monday 13 August 1973 Aviaco Caravelle 10R EC-BIC c/n 225

DSP Flight AO116 from Madrid (MAD) to La Coruna (LCG) with 6 crew and 79 passengers. The crew did several attempts to land on La Coruna shrouded in fog. On the last attempt it struck eucalyptus trees and crashed. Th conditions at that moment were below minima. Probably the crew was looking outside to see the ground and then failed to monitor the altitude at the altimeter. There was an option to land at Santiago apt in better weather conditions but for unknown reason this was not opted for. As the flight took only 50 minutes from Madrid, was it not known that the weather conditions at La Coruna were below minima when the aircraft took of ? The weather along the route was ideal, so could be the crew took off in the assumption the weather in La Coruna was also ideal ? And for that reason had no pre-set plan to divert to Santiago ?

In the accident report is only given meteorological information form 09:00 hr, but does not give information regarding weather conditions at 08:00 hrs before the flight took off. Was the crew aware of weather condition at La Coruna before take off ? I wonder if the flight plan has been checked on this ? Looks to me bad preparation of the flight, if they took off with conditions below minima at La Coruna, they should have had a plan B for diversion ? If you have comment/information on this feel free to contact info.aircraftinvestigation@gmail.com

YOM : 1967 Airframe hrs : 13118 cycles : 9380 engines : P&W JT8D-7. All 85 people onboard died in the crash. location : Pazo del Rio, 3km NE of La Coruna apt. threshold RW22, 43°18’N 08°23’W (taken from the accident report), but more accurate is : +-100m 43°19’53”N 8°21’28”W

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Sunday 18 December 1977 SATA Caravelle 10R HB-ICK c/n 200

Charter flight VS730 from Geneve (GVA) to Funchal (FNC) with 5 crew and 52 passengers. The aircraft descended to low on approach to Funcal RW06 and touched the sea and came to rest 4km short of RW06 threshold. The aircraft touched the water relatively smoothly but the fuselage fractured and water entered the fuselage. Few people could escape from the aircraft before it sank to a depth of 600m. YOM : 1965

Airframe hrs : 21134 cycles : 12767 engines : P&W JT8D-7. 36 people died in the crash.

location : 4km SSE of Funchal apt. 32°39’07”N 16°45’07”W (taken from the accident report) +- 300m

abbreviations :

DSP = domestic scheduled passenger

ISP = international scheduled passenger

RW = runway

YOM = Year of Manufacture