Air Reflexions Magazine

Issue 26, March 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

An All Too Familiar Scenario
Unsuccessful Autorotation Following Fuel Starvation
TCAS Comes Through
Cargo Bay In-flight Fire - Interim Recommendations
Update: In-flight Fire Accident at Montreal
Statistics
Summaries
Final Reports

Figures

Figure 1 - Point of closest approach.

Photos

Photo 1 - The Regionnair Raytheon Beech 1900D that crashed on approach to Sept-Îles airport in August 2002.
Photo 2 - Wreckage of a Bell 214B helicopter near Kaslo, British Columbia, in July 1999.
Photo 3 - A portion of the helicopter's tail assembly.
Photo 4 - A typical air traffic controller workstation.
Photo 5 - Heater ribbon failure and contaminated insulation blankets contributed to a fire in an Air Canada aircraft cargo hold such as this.
Photo 6 - Fire damage caused by a faulty water-line ribbon heater. Note the heat-induced distortion to the beam structure.
Photo 7 - Contaminated thermal-insulation blankets such as these pose considerable fire hazards.
Photo 8 - The Fairchild/Swearingen Metroliner II that broke apart over runway 24 at Mirabel on 18 June 1998.
Photo 9 - TSB research since 1983 has revealled that SA226s and SA227s suffer frequent landing gear and tire failures, wheel fires and loss of control on ground.
Photo 10 - Damage to an Astra SPX, which struck treetops on approach to Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia, in March 2000.
Photo 11 - A combination of factors led to the crash of this Douglas DC-3 in which both pilots perished at Ennadai Lake, Nunavut, on 17 March 2000.

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