In that case it could simply be sloppiness that he hadnt slowed his descent in preparation, so the DC-9 did not immediately level out. [4] By the time the plane came to a stop, it was 4,219ft (1,286m) short of the runway and 275ft (84m) south of the middle marker. [19], On November 11, 2000, the We Are Marshall Memorial Bronze was dedicated. (#3 might have been intended to saunter vaguely in that direction; possibly the writer was also steering clear of anything suggesting that the airline was at fault.). Improved highways and an increasing willingness among passengers to drive to airports farther away for more convenient flights made many of Southern's routes obsolete. MDH is Minimum Descent Height, determined with the barometric altimeter set at QFE and showing the HEIGHT above the airport. We were in a Cessna 310, OK, only a light twin but still. Southern Airways Flight 932 - Unionpedia, the concept map Southern Airways Flight 932 Southern Airways Flight 932 was a chartered Southern Airways Douglas DC-9 domestic United States commercial jet flight from Stallings Field (ISO) in Kinston, North Carolina, to Huntington Tri-State Airport/Milton J. Ferguson Field (HTS) in Ceredo, West Virginia. [2], The original proposal to charter the flight was refused because it would exceed "the takeoff limitations of their aircraft". Instead, the descent continued for another 300ft (91m) for unknown reasons, apparently without either crew member actually seeing the airport lights or runway. Lengyel, who came from a coaching job at the College of Wooster, was hired by the recently hired athletic director Joe McMullen, under whom he had previously worked at the University of Akron in the 1950s. Some points you make are plausible, but it seems that few readers understand: I flew a few times into Worcester MA (KORH), which IIRC is even more above the immediate surroundings (over 500 feet above its name-city); how much warning of a low approach would GPWS give there? The weather was awful, we only saw the runway at the last moment, just when we had initiated the missed approach. Southern Airways. 2) He erroneously used the radio altimeter, thus calling out the height over the current terrain rather than over the runway. At the end of the ceremony the memorial fountain goes silent until Spring. The team originally planned to cancel the flight, but changed plans and chartered the Southern Airways DC-9. The crash of Flight 932 almost led to the discontinuation of the university's football program. It was the second college football team plane crash in a little over a month, after the October 2 crash that killed 31 (head coach, 14 Wichita State players, and 16 others). You contribution makes sense, even if the investigation failed to determine whether or not the altimeter had been a factor. The former is easier to use as it will give the altitude as height, with the zero reference being the airport. Because it was the Herd's only charter flight of the season, boosters and prominent citizens were on the plane, including a city councilman, a state legislator, and four physicians. The controller later cleared them for a runway 11 localizer approach. Another theory was that the pilot and first officer were using their radio altimeters to determine the planes altitude. Required fields are marked *. The report describes the conditions that night when the DC-9 was on approach as follows: The terrain under the approach path was irregular with numerous hills of varying heights. It could have been originally from North Central or Hughes AirWest instead, however. [12], Head coach Rick Tolley was among the crash victims. I remember when I was new in Ryanair and still a F/O on the BAC 1-11. Meanwhile, the investigators were not able to find any physical evidence of an issue with the static system or ports. Why does he call out the height above ground at all? On a precision approach we use either DA or DH, same principle. It is my life's mission to make sure that our 75 are never forgotten. Recommendation #1 starts to point at this, then veers off into planned electronic aids that would do nothing if the crew didnt pay attention to them; in particular, its not clear that a heads-up display would have helped in those conditions. Or vice versa. New coach Jack Lengyel, Marshall University students, and Thundering Herd football fans convinced acting Marshall president, Donald N. Dedmon, to reconsider cancelling the program in late 1970. All seventy-five that had been on the plane were pronounced dead at 7:36 pm on November 14, 1970 when the plane had clipped a tree on its landing, crashing into the woods. He called them to advise them that he was about to get into a taxi. According to the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), at 1555:58 the captain remarked, "Well the radar is full of it, take your pick." At 1556:00, the controller told Flight 242 that his radarscope was showing heavy precipitation and that the echos were about 5 nmi ahead of the flight. . First Officer: No, not yet. [12] Lengyel led the Thundering Herd to a 933 record during his tenure, which ended after the 1974 season. Southern Airways Flight 932 was a chartered Southern Airways Douglas DC-9 domestic United States commercial jet flight from Stallings Field (ISO) in Kinston, North Carolina, to Huntington Tri-State Airport/Milton J. Ferguson Field (HTS) near Kenova and Ceredo, West Virginia. Your story confirms what I was pointing at: there seems to have been not only bad real-time CRM but bad (or completely missing) preparation. They were our fathers, mothers, grandparents, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. When his command came up, he had to transfer to an older type, still without glass cockpit. In weather conditions of mist and light rain with low clouds (scattered clouds at 300 feet, broken overcast at 500 feet solid overcast at 1000 feet), the aircraft descended below MDA and struck trees on a hill, approx. It was a day that changed a university, a town, a nation and the lives of so many people forever. The second and third calls are closer to the height over the terrain, that is, those could have been done using the radio altimeter. I am the daughter of Danny Deese, Charter Coordinator for Southern Airways Flight 932. Welcome to the Southern Flight 932 Memorial Website! He also held a flight instructor certificate with airplane and instrument ratings. This was probably a major factor in the accident. always be in our hearts. Mike, the ADIRU in a modern aircraft knows exactly where the aircraft is, and the flight management computer has a database of all the runways. Does that make sense to you? [2][7] The plane burst into flames and created a swath of charred ground 95ft (29m) wide and 279ft (85m) long. Now, this isnt an exact science. But there the relevant heights were calibrated and shown on the Cat 2 or Cat 3 approach plates. Southern Airways DC-9 similar to the accident aircraft, taken by clipperarctic in 1972 This was a difficult approach in heavy, gusty wind and rain with low clouds. There were no survivors when Southern Airways Flight 932 crashed on Nov. 14, 1970. The descent below Minimum Descent Altitude during a non-precision approach under adverse weather conditions, without visual contact with the runway environment. And the fourth call, the important one, to show that theyd reached their MDA, doesnt match up however we look at it. Airlines of course were a different matter. I learned QNH and to compare the ATIS-reported barometer setting with what I saw in the Kollsman window when I got into the plane and set the altimeter to the field elevation, so that I could correct for an imperfect altimeter when I got a destinations setting very early; this was in a military-based flying club, but I never got the impression the civil schools on the other side of the field, or anyone elsewhere in the northeast US, used QFE. So if the 400 feet was from the radio altimeter, then they were only 900 feet above mean sea level, even though the minimum descent altitude for the approach was 1,240 feet above mean sea level. document.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()); 2019 - 2023 System Improvements Inc. All Rights Reserved. Furthermore, the first officer called out airspeed in terms of a number (Hundred and twenty-six) instead of a reference speed, which is indicative of a go-around rather than a continuing approach. Southern Airways Express 932 FDY932 / 9X932 Upgrade account to see tail number Landed over 4 years ago PIT Pittsburgh, PA LNS Lancaster, PA took off from Pittsburgh Intl - PIT landed at Lancaster - LNS Saturday 06-Jan-2018 02:20PM EST (10 minutes late) Saturday 06-Jan-2018 03:28PM EST (28 minutes late) 1h 8m total travel time Not your flight? Why. [11] Dawson was a coach from the previous staff who had driven back from the East Carolina game along with Gail Parker, a freshman coach. It had been in the planning. Young Thundering Herd: Marshall!". It was donated to the university by Marshall fans and is attached to Joan C. Edwards Stadium on the west faade. Further, the last two calls, if they were indeed meant to reflect altitude, seem to be in line with the height above the ground. The glass cockpit had not been introduced yet. The unit has sustained considerable impact damage to the electronics package, but there was no damage within the stainless steel case of the tape magazine. But it's also a month of mourning: on November 14, 1970, on a dark, wet, cold night just after 7:35 p.m., Southern Airways Flight 932 went down in a field near Kenova, killing all 75 people on board. 0. I felt the images and newspaper headlines did a good job of showing the impact of the crash. It was the difference between getting there or diverting. Menu. In view of the apparent success of the nonstandard glide slope at Huntington, it is unfortunate that such an installation was not made sooner. In this case the issue was an unfamiliar airport rather than an unfamiliar procedure, but their failure to plan seems clear. According to the official National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report, the accident was "unsurvivable". My name is Leslie Deese Garvis. variables as winds aloft and flight recorder accuracy. The aircraft "dipped to the right, almost inverted, and had crashed into a hollow 'nose-first'". First Officer: A thousand feet above the ground, rate and speed good. Marshall University. The out of date plate was not relevant, except that it demonstrated a sloppy operation in general. At 7:36 pm on November 14, 1970, the aircraft crashed into a hill just short of the . Date Flight Number Aircraft Description; 26 Feb 2021 World Airways Flight 30H DC-10 Overran ice covered runway on landing 03 Mar 2020 . our approach speed was nearly the cruising speed of the 172. Many ifnot most only subscribed to the area they were going to fly in. It was that close.. Ultimately the result, the outcome may be the same. Seventy children had at least one parent die in the crash, with 18 of them left orphaned. A Memorial Service is held every year at Marshall on November 14th to remember those we lost. Classes at Marshall, along with numerous events and shows by the Marshall Artists Series (and the football team's game against the Ohio Bobcats), were cancelled and government offices were closed. Jimmy Doolittle had far less at his disposal when he demonstrated the possibility of landing on instruments, but he did possess ample basic flying skills and the discipline to maintain his concentration. But this instrument, as I have been at pains to explain, had NO funtction in determining minimum sdescent heights (Not altitudes in this case, it refers to the distance between the aircraft and obstacles immediately below it!). The NTSB chairs comment amplifies what someone (Mendel?) If that seemed unlikely in the first scenario, then why wasnt it mentioned as equally an issue in the second? Including this crew. The airport lighting system, which consisted of high intensity approach lights, sequence flashers and high intensity runway lights, were all in operation and properly set at the time of the accident. When the barometric altimeters were recovered from the wreckage, both were correctly set at 29.67; however the first officers altimeter was out by 300 feet. Well, we did find it, that was not the problem. After that, the chief instructor and I were to get together to discuss when to start training for my first jump. Even so, I did get caught out once. Sure, the captain didnt handle the situation but based on the coordinators commentary, neither had any other captain. I had not remembered the plates detailing obstacles around the approach, but from ~45 years ago thats not surprising; I also flew mostly near the coast, so uneven terrain wasnt something I paid much attention to. The plane, a Douglas DC-9, had left Stalling Field in Kingston, North Carolina on its way to Huntington Tri-State Airport/Milton J. Ferguson Field. The population of Vitry-sur-Seine was 78 908 in 1999, 82 902 in 2006 and 83 650 in 2007. The opponent was scheduled to be East Carolinathe same team that defeated Marshall before the disaster took place. 1 mile short of the runway. The hill with the trees reached a height of 990 feet above sea level, so about 150 feet higher than the runway that they were flying towards. Jeppesen had a 30 arc second (~1km) grid database back in 2002; the DTED-0 database has that resolution and takes up 2 GB of data. There is no known static system error which could cause a 200-foot altimeter error along with a corresponding air-speed error of -17.5 knots; without evidence of a phenomenon which could cause these errors, the Board cannot conclude that a static system error is supported by sufficient evidence to be termed a causal factor in this accident. This years service will be at 2:00pm. Nowadays GPS can be programmed to give precision guidance to aircraft nearly anywhere, the systems were already being developed before I retired 12 yearw ago. He held his ATPC with ratings in the DC-3, DC-4, DC-9 and M-202/404. We went into the holding and the captain gave me a thorough briefing. 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Thats not the only thing thats changed over the past fifty years. You can easily fit that on a USB stick nowadays. Page:NTSB Southern Airways Flight 932 report.pdf/34 This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated. As a memorial to the 75 victims, the Marshall players wore the number 75 on their helmets. Dozens of military personnel were injured when an RAF transport plane on its way to Afghanistan nose-dived 4,400ft after the captain's camera became lodged alongside the aircraft's joystick. No I do not want to judge this colleague. [3] The team was returning home after a 1714 loss to the East Carolina Pirates at Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina. [10], The crash of Flight 932 so devastated the local community that it almost led to the discontinuation of Marshall's football program. They were our fathers, mothers, grandparents, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. So were either looking at an altimeter malfunction, or a bunch of flatland pilots. An airline uses either system, the crews are trained using either QNH of QFE. Theres no clear checklist or challenge-and-response interaction between the captain and the first officer. Below is the link to the 50th Annual Memorial Service from November 14, 2020. The first officer didnt call out five hundred, which was required, and never called out their rate of descent, even when the aircraft was descending faster than expected. The reports main argument against this explanation is that a qualified pilot would not make this mistake, knowing they were flying over uneven terrain. Thats a failure of nerve, imagination, or knowledge by the report writer nerve from worries about how the pilots union would attack any suggestion of pilot error (and the airlines would attack any suggestion their policies&procedures were weak), knowledge because even 50 years ago there was some understanding of how loosey-goosey (or downright strange) some pilots were, or imagination because mistakes are always possible and much more possible when there are documented interferences (the coordinator butting in repeatedly) and failures of attention (the lack of such formal procedures as were standard even 50 years ago). The SRTM3 (Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) data set has that resolution and is 35 GB in size. It was a day that changed a university, a town, a nation and the lives of so many people. So unless the crew were rank amateurs, there was absolutely no excuse for them not to be aware of terrain or obstacles. Use of this setting was mandatory in accordance with the companies procedures The probable cause was cited as the descent below Minimum Descent Altitude. Southern Airways Flight 242 was a DC-9-31 jet, registered N1335U, that executed a forced landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, United States after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm on April 4, 1977. . He made at least four call outs that are definitively height or altitude. Sylvia is correct: Some call-outs are not clear, it would have been more obvious in the context of the crews interaction. Monuments and memorials to aircraft accidents. On November 14, 1970, a DC-9 carrying members of West Virginia's Marshall University Football Team would crash on a rainy hillside, killing everyone on board. We know that these guys are quite loose in the cockpit, taking shortcuts. In that post, I stepped through the sequence of events which led to the crash of the charter flight to Huntington Tri-State airport in a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 which killed all 75 on board. What you refer to has been in use for a very long time, especially in the miltitary, in the form of PAR or Precision Approach Radar. More on knowledge: did the pilots actually know how random the terrain was? I am still confused about the altimeter setting. [7]:37, On November 15, 1970, a memorial service was held at the indoor, 8,500-seat Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse with moments of silence, remembrances, and prayers. We were somewhere in Germany, maybe Stuttgart. QFE was more widely used by British operators. There will have been far more information available to the crew than what is shown on the two specimens that Sylvia printed out: One that was out-of-date at the time of the accident, the other one the current one at the time. The co-pilot, monitoring the altimeter, called out, "It's beginning to lighten up a little bit on the ground here at seven hundred feet We're two hundred above [the descent vector]," and the charter coordinator replied, "Bet it'll be a missed approach." Both systems were used to talk-down an aircraft. A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board plunged midflight and crashed in a mountainous area of southern China on Monday, according to officials and flight-tracking data. Southern Airways Express is a Mississippi-based commuter airline. How much does such a system look forward as well as down? It is certainly possible that all of the calls after the first one were made using the radio altimeter. The air carrier was established in 2013 with two nine-seat planes and now owns a fleet of about 24 aircraft as well as two FAA Operating Certificates. 1970 in aviation. The aircraft then crashed and caught fire. That game did not occur due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [24], Marshall was scheduled to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the air disaster in their football season opener on August 29, 2020. Itd be interesting to know which airports they were used to flying to, and how much experience they had with mountain operations. Code Insee. L'aereo. These are the tales of those who experienced the aftermath of the deadliest tragedy in United States. Visiting unfamiliar airports was of course a matter of routine for a corporate pilot, we could even be sent to a destination that we never had heard of before, without much in the way of notice. The problem was that it was not much more than a 300 m. long strip, barely the width of a cyclepath and challenging for a Cessna 172. The aircraft had been chartered as Southern Airways flight 932 to carry the Marshall University Football team, along with their coaches and fans (known as boosters) back home to Huntington after a football game in Greenville, North Carolina, which they lost. Although the airport runway has since been lengthened past its original threshold, making historical measurements more difficult, the NTSB official report provides, "the accident occurred during hours of darkness at 38 22' 27" N. latitude and 82 34' 42" W. Mtropole du Grand Paris. The aircraft was a chartered twin-engined Southern Airways DC-9 capable The call of hundred! shortly before impact could either be the the height above the ground and the aircrafts airspeed at that moment. Then there was the annual checklist. This comment by the charter coordinator could mean that he could see that the flight was approaching the Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA) and the runway was still not in sight. (I never flew anywhere near that far west, but the plates came in regional blocks and I kept the entire block updated.) The CVR data indicated at least two interruptions to power, one lasting 15 . They further stated, "The Board has been unable to determine the reason for this [greater] descent, although the two most likely explanations are (a) improper use of cockpit instrumentation data, or (b) an altimetry system error. A plaque was placed on the base on August 10, 1973, reading: They shall live on in the hearts of their families and friends forever and this memorial records their loss to the university and the community. Jeppesen also had VFR only sets. Seluruh penerbangan dari Fort Chipewyan ke Comox. The airplane operated on a flight from Kinston-Stallings Field, NC (ISO) to Huntington-Tri-State Airport, WV (HTS). On November 12, 1972, the Memorial Fountain was dedicated at the entrance of the Memorial Student Center. Certainly a qualified and reasonably experienced crew of a DC-9 should know. If the altimeter was showing an altitude that was 200-300 feet high, then that would explain why the flight crew stopped their descent at about 300 feet below the MDA. There were few lights along the approach path excepting those of the refinery which were to the right of the inbound track. On Nov. 14, 1970, a plane carrying 75 people including Marshall's football team, coaches, staff, community members and flight crew crashed near the Huntington Tri-State Airport on a return trip. A mass funeral was held at the field house and many of the dead were buried at the Spring Hill Cemetery, some together because bodies were not identifiable. The population density of Vitry-sur-Seine is 7 167.95 inhabitants per km. The runway was at 828 feet. Although the captain referred to issues at the performance of the autopilot, the descent was stable throughout and there was nothing to imply of a loss of control or a serious autopilot malfunction during the approach. Southern Airways: Registration: N97S: MSN: 47245/510: First flight: 1969: Total airframe hrs: 3667: . A VFR flight plan had to be filed. Southern Airways, Inc., a DC-9, N97S, operating as charter Flight 932, crashed during a landing attempt at the Tri-State Airport, Huntington, West Virginia, at approximately 1936 E.S.T., on November 14, 1970. After an uneventful flight, the crew contacted Huntington Approach Control at 19:23. [4][9], The effects of the crash on Huntington went far beyond the Marshall campus. "[7] The remains of six passengers were never identified. the aircraft was destroyed. My response was your controls, he took over and landed the aircraft. All were qualified for the flight. A memorial bell tower is being planned for a location on WV 75 near exit 1 along Interstate 64. Now Im not sure dual human failure is all that unlikely but more importantly, if there was an issue with the first officers barometric altimeter being 300 feet out, then we still have the same question: why didnt the Captain notice? [16] The committee decided upon one major memorial within the campus, a plaque and memorial garden at Fairfield Stadium, and a granite cenotaph at the Spring Hill Cemetery; the Memorial Student Center was designated a memorial as well.[17]. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. I had little or no time for preparations. Southern Airways 242 CVR Transcript 4 Apr 1977 - Southern Airways 242 Southern Airways Flight 242 was a DC-9-31 jet, registered N1335U, that executed a forced landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, United States after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm on April 4, 1977. Only during my final few years did I fly aircraft with moving map systems and electronic Jeppesen plates. They would have been using an altimeter setting that they were not really used to. Reading the report, there are some unexpected omissions in how the NTSB handled the investigation. Its beginning to lighten up a little bit on the ground here at ah seven hundred feet. The Board has been unable to determine the reason for this descent, although the two most likely explanations are: a) improper use of cockpit instrument data; or b) an altimetry system error., Further thoughts on the crash and the NTSB investigation. 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