New Report on the Plane Crash in Sabiha Gökçen

owned by Pegasus Airlines on February 5, 2020 Boeing 737-86J A terrible accident occurred when the type plane skidded off the runway at Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul. As a result of this accident that shocked the whole country 3 people died, 180 people were injured.

We conveyed to you that the accident report was completed last year. Captain Pilot in this report Mahmut Aslanco-pilot Ferdinant Pondaag It was stated that 4 people and one institution were found guilty, and the landing was not carried out in accordance with the stable approach criteria. Now, there have been new developments regarding the accident.

Pilots panicked due to lightning strike

Within the scope of the investigation carried out by the Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, a 157-page accident report was published. According to the report, a lightning strike hit the plane 6 minutes before landing; For this reason, pilots in stress increased and captain pilot Aslan’s panicking It was noted that he wanted to land immediately.

In addition, after the lightning strike, the technical unit was searched; However, it was stated that the speech made after there was no emergency below 10,000 feet increased the workload in the cockpit.

It was stated that the pilots did not follow the instructions.

It was also stated that the pilots did not follow the instructions. According to the report, the pilots were informed that the active runway, which is suitable for the weather conditions, is ’06’; but the pilots ignoring He prepared and descended according to the ’24’ runway. It was also included in the report that the other planes before the flight that had the accident bypassed the runway.

In addition, it was noted in the report that the pilots did not work in coordination with the tower. The second pilot named Ferdinant Pondaag is a Dutch citizen and therefore not knowing TurkishAmong the explanations in the report were that he did not understand the air traffic conversations and could not explain the indicators on the approach line to the captain.

‘If the pilot had braked automatically, the plane would not have left the runway’

In the previously shared report, the captain pilot 6 seconds It was stated that he braked late. Now instead of the pilot’s manual automatic braking It was stated that if he did, the plane would not have left the runway. In addition, the weather conditions worsened after landing; For this reason, it was reported that the wind speed increased and meteorological It was said that the situation was among the factors that caused the accident.

Lack of safety net at the airport cause of accident

Finally, the report noted that there was no malfunction in the fuselage or systems of the Boeing 737-86J type aircraft prior to the accident. In addition, there are no roads on the runway where the incident took place to facilitate the access of aid vehicles to the wreckage; hence the runway extension lack of safety net It was among the things shared in the report that it was described as one of the first class causes of accidents.