Turkish Passenger Plane Crashed into Ocean Due to “Bees”

As we all know today, Dominik was a wonderful holiday island for the winter months as well. with an airline Turkish businessman Çetin Birgen, owner of Birgenair‘he said. The passengers were German and the flight crew consisted of Turks.

No problems so far. The real problem; aeroplane, It was going to happen when moving from Dominica to Frankfurt. Moreover, the reason was that it was so small that you would not believe it could bring down a giant plane.

Birgenair, a Turkish carrier company, had only 5 aircraft in its fleet.

Having financial difficulties because they could not sell tickets to enough passengers, the company only It contained 5 aircraft.. One of those planes took off on 6 February 1996 to transport German tourists from the Dominican Republic to Frankfurt.

Flight 301 flight, He was making the necessary preparations for the 9-hour flight.. According to the route drawn, it would first reach Canada and then Germany via the Atlantic Ocean.

The plane was held at the airport for financial reasons.

Birgenair officials, so that the company does not suffer He wanted the plane to return to Istanbul with enough passengers to cover the material damage. Therefore, the plane was held at the airport until it had enough passengers to depart. Probably the cause of the crash of the plane was born here.

The Boeing 757-225 made the flight for 11 years.

in flight crew 11 Turks, 2 Dominicans there was. The captain pilot was Ahmet Erdem, one of the most senior pilots of the company with a total of nearly 25 thousand flight hours. The co-pilot was Aykut Gergin. It had 3,500 flight hours; He did not have as much experience as the captain for this aircraft model. The supervisor was Muhlis Evrenesoğlu. He had at least as much flight experience as Ahmet Erdem.

cockpit crew, On February 7, 1996 at 23:30 local time He requested permission from the tower for his flight 301. It is said that the captain did not delay the flight, although Aykut Gergin noticed the incompatibility of the two indicators and warned him while the pre-departure controls were being carried out. Since they have been away from home for weeks, it is thought that the reason for this situation is the psychology of going home as soon as possible.

The speed of the aircraft reached 150 knots. It was now impossible not to allow take-off at this border.

After a successful takeoff, the aircraft’s speedometers returned to normal and the aircraft was put into autopilot mode. As soon as the autopilot was engaged, the plane increased its angle of climb even more than it should have. Autopilot, captain pilot misrepresented airspeed indicator He was giving orders to the plane. The plane was making moves to lose speed as the airspeed gauge showed 350 knots.

Meanwhile, the co-pilot’s speedometer, which actually shows the correct values, airplane speed too low it was showing. The flight crew, who had never encountered such a situation before, did not know what to do, but they did not take the plane off autopilot. To correct the increasingly confusing situation, the captain asked the superintendent to reset the fuse for the gauges. When the fuse was reset, the plane started to give unrelated visual and audible warnings.

Couldn’t the pilots tell from the outside whether the plane was going fast or not?

Of course, even if this is possible, the flight performed is a It was a night flight. This shows that there is no outside view. Therefore, the only place pilots could refer to was the aircraft’s own system.

At this time, the aircraft went into climb mode by raising its nose into the air. The captain took the plane off autopilot and forgot that he was on his way to raising the nose of the plane into the air. However, very low speed aircraftHe was already in the hanging position. The plane gave a hang and stick shaker warning, but the captain pilot ignored the stick shaker warning, which is a mechanical warning. If he had, it would be easy to understand since it was a mechanical error, the plane could have been saved from crashing.

Stick shaker is a system that warns pilots by vibrating that the airspeed is low and it will stop the plane.

The plane, which was moving too slowly to hold in the air, was still giving the signals that it showed too fast on the air indicators. The captain made a big mistake and pulled the throttle of the plane, which had slowed down considerably; this reduced the power to the motors. aircraft reacting to this command. stick shaker activated.

The inability of the co-pilot and supervisor to intervene directly in the incident would result in the lives of the other passengers as well as themselves.

When the captain realized his mistake, he gave gas to the plane, the balance of the plane with only the right engine running, and the plane started to turn upside down and fall. Soon in Birgenair plane with 189 passengers crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

The Dominican Navy has launched a search for the missing plane and passengers.

Crews found aircraft fuel, parts, and shark-attacked bodies floating on the sea surface. The plane’s black boxes were pulled out of the ocean, and upon investigation, they found something rather surprising. A mud pouring into one of the pitot tubes that measure the aircraft’s airspeed. hornet nest detected. This prevented the fluid from entering and caused incorrect data to be transmitted.

This blockage is unacceptable under normal conditions because they are covered with a protective sheath during maintenance and the sheath is removed when maintenance is complete. However, this plane’s pitot tubes were left unsheathed during more than three weeks of waiting at the airport. This was enough time for the bee to make a nest. As a result of the reports, the situation that caused the plane to crash It was concluded that it was the fault of the pilot and the technician.

The crew who died in the accident Edirnekapi Martyrdom was buried.