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Airbus A330-200 accident report

Monday 1 June 2009 Air France A330-203 F-GZCP c/n 660

ISP Flight AF447 from Paris (CDG) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) with 12 crew and 216 passengers. The aircraft crashed on route over the Atlantic ocean. The pitot tubes got blocked with ice crystals during cruise. This gave wrong aircraft speed readings, disconnection of the auto-pilot and the aircraft got into a sustained stall. The flight crew could not diagnose clearly the situation and did not understood they were stalled and did not apply a recovery manoeuvre. First flight : 2005

Airframe hrs : 18870 cycles : 2644 engines : CF6-80E1A3. All people on board died in the crash. Floating debris was recovered from the sea. Finally on 2 April 2011 the wreckage was located at the ocean floor with an unmanned submarine.

location : from the accident report : 03°03’57”N 30°33’42”W

Airbus A330-200 | Air France | F-GZCP

Wednesday 12 May 2010 Afriqiyah A330-202 5A-ONG c/n 1024

ISP Flight AAW771 from Johannesburg (JNB) to Tripoli, Libya (TIP) with 11 crew and 93 passengers. TW locator approach to RW 09. There were patches of ground fog around the airport. The crew descended below the minimum altitude, but still the runway was not in sight. At 280ft altitude the GPWS sounded and the crew initiated a go-around. But the crew got disorientated and steered the aircraft down, and the aircraft impacted the ground 1200m from the threshold. First flight : 2009

Airframe hrs : 2175 cycles : 572 engines : CF6-80E1A4B. 103 people died in the crash, 1 Dutch kid, 8 years old survived, although serious injured.

location : 0.9 km W of Tripoli, Libya +-50m 32°39’41.76”N 13°06’52.68”E