First Officer Incapacitated After Landing
Airbus A320. No damage. One fatality.
D
ay visual meteorological conditions pre-vailed for the charter flight from Turkey to Denmark. The first officer conducted a landing that the accident report described as “unevent-ful, until the landing roll.”
The first officer twice failed to make a callout to the captain in accordance with the operator’s standard operating procedures, and the captain twice warned him of the missed callout. Then the captain “observed that the first officer was incapacitated” and took control of the airplane, taxied it to the gate and requested medical assis-tance from the airport air traffic control tower.
The first officer was pronounced dead at a local hospital. A medical report said that he probably died because of an embolism (sudden blockage of a blood vessel by something that had been cir-culating in the blood) in the lungs and heart.
Cabin Crewmember Injured by Turbulence
Avions de Transport Régional ATR 42-300. No damage. One serious injury.
AIR TAXI/CoMMUTER
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he airplane was being flown in clouds on an evening flight from Wales to Ireland. A weather forecast predicted turbulence associ-ated with passage of a front, but the crew of an-other aircraft being flown along the same route said that they had encountered no turbulence.
about 50 nautical miles (93 kilometers) from
the destination airport, the airplane was flown into turbulence, and the captain turned on seat-belt signs in the cabin. The cabin crew-
member secured the cabin. Because turbulence
was light, she remained standing in the galley. Seconds later, the airplane encountered severe turbulence, which threw the cabin crewmember across the galley, into the cabin ceiling and a bulkhead and then onto the floor. With difficulty, she moved to her seat and fastened her seat belt. She used the interphone to tell the captain what had happened and later made a pre-landing an-nouncement to passengers. She was taken to a hospital with skeletal muscular injuries.
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