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Accident and Serious Incident Reports: CFIT
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| Category: | Controlled Flight Into Terrain | 
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| Content control: | EUROCONTROL | 
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Definition
Reports relating to accidents which resulted in Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) and serious incidents which could have resulted in CFIT.
The accident and serious incident reports are grouped together below in subcategories according to phase of flight.
En-route
- C185, Smithers BC Canada, 2000 (CFIT) (On 27 September 2000, a Cessna 185, struck a snow covered hillside, probably while in controlled flight, en-route from Smithers BC, Canada.)
- EC55, en-route, Hong Kong China, 2003 (HF CFIT) (On 26 August 2003, at night, a Eurocopter EC155, operated by Hong Kong Government Flight Service (GFS), performing a casualty evacuation mission (casevac), impacted the elevated terrain in Tung Chung Gap near Hong Kong International airport.)
- P46T, vicinity Son Bonet Palma de Mallorca Spain, 2002 (HF AI CFIT) (On 19 December 2002, a Piper PA-46 Malibu, after takeoff from Son Bonet Aerodrome, penetrated the control zone (CTR) of Palma de Mallorca tower. The pilot was instructed to leave the CTR and the aircraft headed towards mountainous terrain to the north of the island where the flight conditions were below the VFR minimum. In level flight the aircraft impacted terrain at an altitude of 2000 ft killing all three occupants.)
Approach and Landing
- A310, vicinity Birmingham UK, 2006 (LB CFIT HF) (On 24 November 2006, an A310 descended significantly below cleared altitude during a radar vectored approach positioning, as a result of the flight crew's failure to set the QNH, which was unusually low.)
- A320, Khartoum Sudan, 2005 (WX CFIT HF) (On 11 March 2005, an Airbus A321-200 operated by British Mediterranean Airways, executed two unstable approaches below applicable minima in a dust storm to land in Khartoum Airport, Sudan. The crew were attempting a third approach when they received information from ATC that visibility was below the minimum required for the approach and they decided to divert to Port Sudan where the A320 landed without further incident.)
- A320, vicinity Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 2003 (CFIT) (On 31 March 2003, an A320, operated by British Mediterranean AW, narrowly missed colliding with terrain during a non-precision approach to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.)
- A320, vicinity Bahrain Airport, Kingdom of Bahrain, 2000 (CFIT HF) (On 23 August 2000, a Gulf Air A320 flew into the sea during a night go around at Bahrain. The airplane had been cleared to land on runway 12 at Bahrain International Airport, Muharraq, Bahrain, but after executing the missed approach, it impacted water about 3 miles northeast of the airport. The airplane was destroyed and all 143 persons on board were killed.)
- A320, vicinity Glasgow UK, 2008 (CFIT HF) (An Airbus A322 being operated by British Airways on a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Glasgow was being radar vectored in day IMC towards an ILS approach to runway 23 at destination when an EGPWS Mode 2 Hard Warning was received and the prescribed response promptly initiated by the flight crew with a climb to MSA.)
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