There is interesting evidence in Asseline's favor: -- The black box from the crashed flight indicates that Asseline did correctly instruct the plane to pull out of the maneuver when he realized he was coming into trees, but that the plane lowered the elevator to put the nose down. If you remove management edicts and substitute human judgment, you can eliminate 19 out of 20 errors. Not easy, but not impossible. He was a highly distinguished pilot with 10,463 flight hours. I feel he should have radioed in and asked if it was acceptable to switch runways. Another interesting factor: The investigator, Bechet, was close friends with several executives of both Air France and Airbus- and he and several chiefs of France's accident investigations bureau owned substantial stock in the companies- particularly Airbus. Asseline, who had been a senior pilot with Air France for eight years, maintained the pilots were unfairly blamed, and said the plane had failed to respond quickly to attempts to raise it. They did have indications of problems as in any new version of an airplane before it is completely debugged. You are Captain Michel Asseline. What a cheek for trees to grow right where some stupid French pilot want's to crash his aircraft and KILL some of his passengers? He gave the best he could to make it fly. The crash was a great embarrassment to Air France and Airbus, a European company with deep roots in France. I don't know how passenger survived. Anytime there are questions suspicions involving large corporations and/or government power, one can usually follow the money to find the truth. instead of only 30ft trees they could have easily been larger. Some pilots may not want to go back into the cockpit due to fear and mental trauma from their prior acts or cultural pressure to not do so. But the truth is that the new technology has caused some crashes as well. The pilot pulled up on the yoke to ease the plane up over the hundred-foot-tall woods at the end of the runway. [1] A training captain since 1979, Asseline was appointed to head the company's A320 training subdivision at the end of 1987. I think the pilot is culpable. The official report from BEA concluded that the probable cause of the accident was a combination of the following: Furthermore, the bureau concluded that if the descent below 100 feet was not deliberate, it may have resulted from a failure by the crew to take proper account of the visual and aural information available to them regarding the elevation "above ground level" (AGL) of the aircraft. Not being able to fly directly to the airport. Why be a sucker? I take my hat off to the captain. [5][6], The plane's flight recorders were found still attached in the unburnt tail section. [2], The flight deck crew believed that the engines had failed to respond to the application of full power. [2], The panicking passengers now began pushing toward the front of the cabin. Edit. It would not open, which was fortunate as there was by that time a fire on the left wing. Pilots are charged with the safety of their passengers first and foremost. Respond with some you can think of! 12:45:30 - nose-up attitude increases to 7. Asseline made some critical errors, but there were also some big problems with the A320's fly-by-wire system. In the process, the purser and the passenger were thrown out of the fuselage with the slide landing on top of them. I don't think so. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. It was piloted by a premier captain of Air France, Captain Michel Asseline, with over10,000 air hours, and led the training division of Air France for qualifying pilots on the Airbus 320. Runway to pass over - again wrong. Another was a girl in seat 8C, who was unable to remove her seatbelt (her older brother had removed his own seatbelt but was carried away by the rush of people before he could help his sister). Much of this stock was held in the names of various family members and shell corporations. Re: Pilots that make mistakes -- Where are they today? Three seconds later, the aircraft descends through 40 feet (12m) at an airspeed of 132 knots. The pilot is responsible for the safety of his aircraft and passengers. And air law states that 500ft is the minimum height for air shows. He also claims he recognized that spectators were on a different runway than the one included in his flight plan. Asseline did not find the aerodrome in . [2], The pilots had each had a busy weekend and did not receive the flight plan until the morning of the flight. The pilot pulled up on the yoke to ease the plane up over the hundred-foot-tall woods at the end of the runway. . Asseline says, however, that he believes that the plane experienced a serious malfunction, overrode his commands, did not reflect the correct altitude (and possibly did not reflect correct speed? Overflight at this altitude made the demonstration to the crowd even more awe-inspiring. There is evidence for this: -- Asseline was the pilot in charge of training others on this airplane, but he is on record saying that he found the secondary digital altimeter to be unreadable, and to this day he hasn't been able to use it during flight.-- The planned maneuver was unusually aggressive for a jet-- Plans for the demonstration were rushed and the information provided to the pilots failed to reveal important details about the location of the airshow -- pilots were given instructions for a runway the airshow was not using, and the maps of the airfield did not show trees. When the evacuation continued, the flight attendant stayed at the door, helping passengers, until she began suffering from smoke inhalation. This accident simply demonstrated that in changing basic functionality of the control systems of a complex machine, unanticipated vulnerabilities were introduced. There's every reason to suspect Airbus is correct, that many crashes have been prevented. And how is it possible that the flight deck crew did not look into the obstacles around the airport with flying this low??? He was endorsed on the Caravelle, Boeing 707 and 737, and had qualified as an A320 captain three months before the accident. Possibly retired now . He says that when Airbus realized that this would be a PR disaster, that they tampered with evidence to make it appear that he had not taken corrective action soon enough. Since the plane was going slow, the computer overrode his input, and denied the maneuver. Some seconds later the aircraft touched the tops of the trees behind the runway and crashed into a forest. It threatened to ruin the reputation of the A320, potentially losing many millions of dollars in sales. If we come down hard on anyone who makes an error (I'm looking at you, airlines who "resign" flight crews over errors), we're asking for errors to continue unchecked until an aircraft gets binned. Captain Michel Asseline asserted that the altimeter read 30m (100'). This would be followed by a sightseeing trip south to Mont Blanc before the passengers would be returned to BaselMulhouse Airport. This is specifically in reference to the fact that the Airbus 320 system would consider the craft landing when it was low to the ground and override the Captain's ability to pull the craft up. All the passengers survived the initial impact, but a woman and two children died from smoke inhalation before they could escape after struggling to unfasten the seatbelt. The crash was a great embarrassment to Air France and Airbus, a European company with deep roots in France. "No, of course they shouldn't. He didnt familiarize himself with the airfield as he should have and he must take responsibility for flying at only 30 feet instead of 100ft. As a retired air crash investigator, I have examined this crash in great detail. A very unfortunate event in history! He was not given a map and route. Wouldnt a 200-foot overflight be nearly as spectacular? Traduzioni in contesto per "had the endorsement" in inglese-italiano da Reverso Context: I hope the Commission will pay very serious attention to them since they have had the endorsement also of the Regional Affairs Committee. Now he was not planning on landing so these were of no interest to him.So then what safety reason would he have to go around? The plane crashed because of a design defect; but because it was software and not metal, it was ignored. Here's one I remember seeing a few years ago in Canada. But the take home message, why do you spend every day at work in the cross-hairs of numerous non-producers who cant do the job, but are stalking you? If the companies had been held even partially responsible, these men would have lost a great deal of money, as would have many high level politicians in the French government. Views from inside the cockpit, Aircraft Cabins Tail and Winglet closeups with beautiful airline logos. He was the lead test pilot for the A320 in its development. Moderators: richierich, ua900, PanAm_DC10, hOMSaR, Military Aircraft It is BASIC knowledge!!! The overflight of the airfield at the Aerodrome was to take place at alpha-max, the lowest speed at which a craft could fly without stalling. All the passengers were specially selected for the trip. It's kind of hard to prove that pilots and conditions WOULD have messed up if they had truly been in control of all flights all these years. His job was to find its limitations, but one slipped past him, and Airbus and all the designers and engineers. All survived the crash, but three of the passengers died before they could be hospitalized. The low-speed flyover, with landing gear down, was supposed to take place at an altitude of 100 feet (30m); instead, the plane performed the flyover at 30ft (9m), skimmed the treetops of the forest at the end of the runway (which had not been shown on the airport map given to the pilots) and crashed. Asseline should've used Radar Altimeter when flying at such a low level. [1] By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. He wanted to pop up 70 feet to get over the trees. When the crew suddenly asked the plane for more power and lift, it may have simply ignored them. In the US it's called ASAP. Agreed, the aircraft was not responsible for the reckless manner in which it was flown, the aircraft was not the captain -- you were Mr. Asseline. Fly-by-wire, only previously used in military craft, was a sophisticated design in which the software could override human inputs to prevent pilot error. The Airbus A320 couldnt handle it. Any doctor who tries to practice in medicine today, except for my colleagues in Direct Primary Care, live in the world of Captain Michel Asseline every day. its the fault of the AIRBUS not the pilot, NO it isn't. If you change the pilots cap for a lab coat, arent you Captain Michel Asseline, too? [4], Captain Michel Asseline, 44, had been a pilot with Air France for almost twenty years and had the following endorsements: Caravelle; Boeing 707, 727, and 737; and Airbus A300 and A310. Couldn't even begin to imagine what he has gone through. I'm on the pilot's side here. The A320 had been recently introduced, and Flight 296 was the first passenger flight of the A320. If you get blamed for everything, its better to do nothing. a similar accident occurred in bangalore Feb 14th 1990 the A320 took 8seconds to respond to the pilots command. He was flying with visual flight rules. The computer didnt know he meant just to pop up a few hundred feet. as a pilot my self the rules are for made for a reason they are not to be broken by a pilot for his own or anyone's purpose. Unprofessional. TOGA power is applied. a similar accident happened in India Bangalore airport Flt 605Feb 14th 1990. the aircraft took 8seconds to respond. The captain made a last-second turn and approach to overfly Runway 34R. *Defects come in all shades. Not unless their was prior approval by the proper authorities that made the rules that allowed for him to break it. Captain Michel Asseline asserted that the altimeter read 30m (100'). Do you feel that Captain Asseline should have aborted the flyover? Anyone who has worked same job for years will know what I mean when I say we don't really have to think about what we are doing at work we just do it because we have done it so many times before and know exactly how to do it correctly. A dry run or practice run should have been done before the show or and the pilot should have at least went and saw the airfield prior but he wasn't given any info until right before the flight. 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Community. Every type from fighters to helicopters from air forces around the globe, Classic Airliners Discover (and save!) Airbus had too much to lose as far as money invested developing the plane. This is why Michael in the end is were the blame ends up being put. On June 26, 1988, a very special Airbus A320 left Basel-Mulhouse Airport in Habsheim, France. The plane clipped some trees during a low pass over the airfield and plunged into a forest. He then tried to open the left-side forward door, which was blocked by trees. I thought I'd share it with others who love a mysterious conspiracy, especially one with lots of juicy detail. Airliners.net is the leading community for discovering and sharing high-quality aviation photography. Losing altitude at the last minute. I thing, there was no evidence, that captain Asseline made a fault before crash of plane. I'd give the pilot 30-40% responsibility for the crash. A court in Colmar, in eastern France, also sentenced pilot Michel Asseline to 12 additional months, which were suspended. the aerodrome about ten nautical miles away with his First Office r Maziers. [1], At the time of the incident, only three of the new aircraft type had been delivered to Air France, and the newest one (in service for two days) had been chosen for the flyover. Would you fly with this ass. at the controls? The transcription was later clarified with the assistance of the pilots involved. He said this at least a decade before the Airbus crash. Michel Asseline was the pilot in command of F-GFKC, Pierre Mazire was his first officer, when the aircraft overflew the airfield at 2 pm in wonderful sunny weather. [2] The cockpit voice recorder recorded the first officer's call: The crew applied full power and Asseline attempted to climb. 16-ago-2021 - Captain Michel Asseline, 44, had been a pilot with Air France for almost twenty years and had the following endorsements: Caravelle; Boeing 707, 727, and 737; and Airbus A300 and A310. He was however given a plane that would not climb properly when he tried to and this also contributed to the crash. Do you think the safety override crashed the plane when it forced the nose down, and the crash was inevitable? Air France would have just replaced him. Ascending at such an angle would lead to the planes stalling within minutes. We thank you for your support and hope you'll join the largest aviation community on the web. He did the best he could. A website, http://www.crashdehabsheim.net/ has been set up to analyze the scandal. The pilot called out to the co-pilot for emergency power. Some individual in Texas, I read a little excerpt from book written by a man whom I quite dislike,. He had been charged with ``involuntary homicides and injuries.. *Management often screws around. [2], Habsheim aerodrome was too small to be listed in the aircraft's flight computer, thereby requiring a visual approach; both pilots were also unfamiliar with the airfield when they began their descent from 2,000 feet (610m) only 6 nautical miles (11km) from the field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panintern Flight_112, https://www.welt.de/print/wams/vermisch Licht.html, http://www.feuerwehr-krummesse.de/einsa kensee.php, http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090 .01.en.pdf, http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/14/us/ai hance.html, http://www.avmed.in/2011/02/from-convic le-reborn/, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fir -1.2605682, https://norj.ca/2014/04/pilots-fired-af ff-course/. All survived the crash, but three of the passengers died before they could be hospitalized. The fact is that this kind of statement does not negate the fact that he was breaking the rules. Captain Asseline flew the aircraft manually. Discover (and save) your own Pins on Pinterest. Some faceless desk-pilot added on a trip to a tiny airfield on the day of the flight but did not bother to do the hard work of preparing the particulars necessary to do so. Asseline claims that this indicated a problem with the aeroplane's fly-by-wire system rather than pilot error. The flight attendant then began evacuating the passengers but they soon began to pile up at the bottom of the slide as their route was blocked by trees and branches. During this manoeuvre, a fluctuation in the radio altimeter height corresponds to the aircraft passing over a patch of trees (whereas before and after this fluctuation, the readings of the radio altimeter and those of the barometric altimeter match perfectly). This type of oversight, if you want to call it that, happens ALL the time, in programming software, as well as all other types of engineering. The captain would make a low-level fly-pass over Runway 02, climb up and turn back, and repeat the fly-pass over the same runway in the reciprocal direction (Runway 20). It's about commercial aviation, and I've tried to include all the relevant facts for you to draw conclusions. He was never given the chance. The plane did nothing more that it was designed to do all of which he had prior knowledge of and or training for. 12:44:45 - 'Flaps 3' is selected as the aircraft descends through 500 feet (150m) at an airspeed of 177 knots. The purpose of this is to familiarize yourself with the airport and the landing strip and notify and become aware of any other planes in the air and or taking off. But the take home message, why do you spend every day at work in the cross-hairs of numerous non-producers who cant do the job, but are stalking you? After the rush of people had left and the interior was fast becoming toxic, she stood at the front door and called back into the cabin. Air France Flight 296Q was a chartered flight of a new Airbus A320-111 operated by Air France for Air Charter International. And in the end its all a metter of money and intrest. Asseline fcuked up big time and killed 3 people. [2], The official investigation was carried out by the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA), the French air accident investigation bureau, in conjunction with Air France and Airbus. He exposed multiple anomalies, not to say lies, in the experts evidence and in the data of the crash all of which pointed to a very high level, state inspired plot to whitewash the aircraft in the crash and confirmed what the pilot had been saying all along. He joined the pilots defense team. 3 people died due to smoke. COLMAR, France (AP) _ The pilot of an Airbus A320 jetliner that crashed during a 1988 air show, killing three passengers while hundreds watched, was sentenced to six months in prison Friday. Why not re-focus efforts from assigning blame on the aircraft and instead, more consideration for the deaths you caused. Captain Asseline was flying to Mont Blanc, period. Captain Asseline, and four other Air France employees are convicted of involuntary manslaughter. I sincerely believe that AirBus was involved but not with a planned coverup. I also remember the incident and also am on the side of the pilot. Captain Michel Asseline got thrown under the Airbus. He is now flying in Australia. The episode "Disastrous Descents" of the TV series Aircrash Confidential produced by WMR Productions and IMG Entertainment, featured the accident and included an interview with Captain Michel Asseline. But upon seeing the Aerodrome, the pilot saw that the audience were gathered elsewhere, on Runway 34R. Airport overviews from the air or ground, Tails and Winglets The most accurate answer is that they are in every single cockpit in the world. The rich stay rich because they are manipulative, greedy, throat-cutting bastards who will literally do ANYTHING, trash anyone, to protect/increase their wealth. One of the worst things you can do if a pilot makes a mistake, is fire him thinking that the problem is solved. Captain Michel Asseline. Why well to see were i am landing first to know that what i have been given as a map of the airport is infarct correct.That the runway I am landing on has no trucks parked on it performing maintenance or potholes that have not been repaired or reported. Passenger cabin shots showing seat arrangements as well as cargo aircraft interior, Cargo Aircraft Not only was he told to go there, he was told the wrong runway to overfly. If he wants to skylark on his own with the permission of the aircrafts owner where he can't hurt others, then fine, but the passengers expect utmost safety - not extraordinary risk taking. This and another point i wish to make the fact that most pilots would have performed a procedure called a go around when approaching an airport that you are unfamiliar with. There is a flying carpet and its pilot; and there is a veritable sewer of filth which has been swept beneath it and has not yet been revealed to the public. Ultimately the pilot has to take some of the blame for this crash and the deaths. Five individuals, including the captain and first officer, were later found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. He exposed multiple anomalies, not to say lies, in the experts' evidence and in the data of the crash all of which pointed to a very high level, state inspired plot to whitewash the aircraft in the crash and confirmed what the pilot had been saying all along. He joined the pilot's defense team. [2] Additionally, the captain was expecting from the flight plan to do the pass over runway 02 (3,281 feet (1,000m) long, paved) and was preparing for that alignment. His co-pilot, Pierre Mazieres, got a 12-month suspended sentence. He was supposed to conduct a low-level pass over the runway at . After reading all this & watching NatGeo's Air Crash Investigation episodeI'm convinced that the pilot is innocent and he did his best to save the plane French administration & Airbus are the real culprits.. The engine spool-up time of about 5 sec was perfectly correct, given that they had been pulled right back to flight-idle. Ten minutes after the crash, the first of the fire trucks arrived. A lot may have to do with corporate, national or ethnic culture, the severity of the incident, if the country the crash/incident has an attitude of criminalizing the acts of pilots (like in Brazil) or prior significant acts of error of the pilot in question. Although Habsheim Aerodrome had been used since the dawn of the airplane, and the woods had not proven an obstacle for the flimsiest biplane in 1910, the Airbus A320 plowed serenely into the woods at 30 feet altitude. They said the plane was not at fault. Everything from the Goodyear blimp to the Zeppelin, Night Photos What is crucial is to understand the threats that can lead to errors, look at how those threats can be mitigated, and have procedures in place that allow errors to be caught and resolved before they become a safety event. It is a fact of life that no human is perfect, and every one will make errors at some stage. Pilot was sentenced to imprisonment for about a year. [2], Traditionally, pilots respect the inherent dangers of flying at low speeds at low altitude, and normally, a pilot would not attempt to fly an aircraft so close to stalling with the engines at flight idle (minimum thrust setting in flight). There is even a program for pilots who make mistakes and errors to fess up. He is a man of honor. If he maintained 100ft, the aicraft would've missed the 40ft trees! As Air France's technical pilot, he had been heavily involved in test flying the A320 type and had carried out maneuvers beyond normal operational limitations. Incidents with no casualties but with damage to the ac? He is now flying in Australia. Overflight at this altitude made the demonstration to the crowd even more awe-inspiring. The plan was to overfly Runway Ought-2; the aircraft was configured for a low-altitude overflight. 3 people died due to smoke. and the rule he broke was the defining factor that caused the accident. Since the plane was going slow, the computer overrode his input, and denied the maneuver. He was destined to fail. The plan was to overfly Runway Ought-2; the aircraft was configured for a low-altitude overflight. Captain Michel Asseline, 44, had been a pilot with Air France for almost twenty years and had the following endorsements: Caravelle; Boeing 707, 727, and 737; and Airbus A300 and A310. This pilot should still be in jail for the many areas that he made. Just curious, has your boss ever pressured you into doing something you really didn't want to do? Yesterday, I watched the tv document of disaster. The captain, Michel Asseline, disputed the report and claimed an error in the fly-by-wire computer prevented him from applying thrust and pulling up. His choice to put the safety of the passengers at risk was and is the defining point I wish to make. Self: Air Crash Investigation. [ 1,292 more word ] The Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) continued to operate for about one second, then recorded nonsensical data for another two seconds. show at Mulhouse Habsheim in France. It was a demonstration charter flight, Air France Flight 296. The flight would take 130 passengers and 6 crew aloft. 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