ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 317412
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| Date: | Sunday 8 April 2001 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing 727-264 |
| Owner/operator: | VASP |
| Registration: | PP-SFC |
| MSN: | 21071/1143 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | Fortaleza, CE -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Fortaleza, CE |
| Manaus | |
| Investigating agency: | CENIPA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft took off from Fortaleza bound for Manaus, with three crew members and a main cargo consisting of 10 fiber optic spools.
The pilot experienced difficulties in turning the aircraft on take-off.
During the climb, the performance fell short of plan, the climb time increased by 8 minutes and the acceleration time after leveling off extended by 6 minutes.
After landing at the destination, the commander requested the load to be weighed and found that it was 7,164 kg more than declared on the load sheet.
Contributing factors:
Operational Factor
(1). Poor Instruction - Contributed
For both dispatchers and assistants, learning the function occurred through the transmission of knowledge from the older employees in the function, without an organized and defined training program.
There was no operational training program for the cargo sector.
(2). Poor Supervision - Contributed
There were no guiding processes of the activity defined by documents or a doctrine of periodic verification of the procedures adopted.
(3). Deficient Support Staff - Contributed
The personnel operating in the air cargo terminal performed their tasks in an inadequate manner, motivated by lack of training and supervision.
Other - Contributed.
There was no scale at VASP's cargo terminal in Fortaleza, with capacity for weighing assembled pallets, or a defined procedure to make up for the lack of such a scale.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
SI-030/CENIPA/2005
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Jul-2023 19:23 | harro | Updated |
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