Continental Express Flight 2574

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Continental Express Flight 2574 (Jetlink 2574) is a scheduled domestic flight flight operated by Britt Airways from Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas, to the Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) (now called George Bush Intercontinental Airport ) in Houston, Texas. On 11 September 1991, Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, registered N33701, crashed when a turboprop plane was en route to Houston, killing all 14 people in it. The wreckage struck the area near Eagle Lake, Texas which lies about 65 miles (105 km) southwest-southwest of IAH.

The media claimed there was initial speculation that the bomb had destroyed the plane; However, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) later found that the missing screws on the horizontal stabilizer caused the accident.

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Aircraft and crew

Embraer 120 Brasilia, serial number 120077, was built in 1988, three years before the accident, and has collected 7,229 flight hours through 10,009 cycles. The Federal Aviation Administration record states that the aircraft has been delivered to a maintenance hangar 33 times for scheduled repairs.

The crew consisted of a 29-year-old Brad Patridge from Kingwood, Texas (Greater Houston) as captain and 43-year-old Clint Rodosovich of Houston as first officer. Both experienced pilots with 4,243 flight hours and 11,543 flight hours, respectively.

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Incident

The EMB 120 departs Laredo International Airport at 9:09 am, operates under the Federal Direction of Flight Section 135 and after the normal takeoff is commissioned the flight level of the 250 (FL250) flight level, then transferred to FL240. At 9:54 am, the flightcrew responded to the Houston Air Traffic Control Center, and started down to nine thousand feet. At around 10:03 it was down to 11,500 feet with the air velocity shown at 260 knots, the leading edge of the left horizontal stabilizer separate from the fuselage, and the aircraft drove down dramatically, rolling on the axis as the left wing folded. The fuel coming out of the wing was lit, and the pilot lost consciousness of the severe G-force due to the large oscillations of the paralyzed aircraft. The plane crashed in southeastern Colorado County, Texas, exploded by a collision, from Farm to Market Road 102, seven miles (11 km) southeast of Eagle Lake, Texas, and 60 miles (97 km) west of Downtown Houston. The Texas Department of Public Security said the rescue unit found no survivors. The debris is spread over an area of ​​2-4 square miles (10 km ² ); some pieces fell into the Colorado River. Approximately $ 500,000 (value 1991; currently worth $ 900,000) diamonds found in debris; they have no role in the accident.

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Investigation

The National Transportation Safety Agency (NTSB) investigation revealed that the screws had been removed from the horizontal stabilizer during nightly maintenance before the accident and, after the shift change, the screws were not replaced. The plane crashed on the second flight of the day.

NTSB cited the failure of flight maintenance and inspection personnel to comply with appropriate maintenance procedures and quality assurance. The failure of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) supervision to detect and verify compliance with approved procedures is referred to as contributing factors. After the accident, the FAA conducted the National Aviation Security Inspection Program (NASIP) of the Continental Express maintenance program. Very few security flaws were found, and the airline praised the internal evaluation system. NTSB expressed concern that NASIP found no deficiencies in shift replacement procedures and other matters relevant to accidents, and recommended that agencies improve their NASIP procedures.

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Possible cause

The National Transportation Safety Council determines the possible causes of this accident as follows:

"Failure of Continental Express maintenance and inspection personnel to comply with appropriate maintenance and quality assurance procedures for aircraft stabilization stabilizers causing a sudden loss of aircraft from front horizontal stable frontal stabilizers and severe direct nasal cover and rupture of the aircraft.Contributing the cause of the crash was a failure Continental Express management to ensure compliance with approved maintenance procedures, and FAA supervisory failures to detect and verify compliance with approved procedures. "

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Role in developing safety culture

According to Meshkati (1997), the Continental Express Flight 2574 crash was the most dramatic turning point for "safety culture" in the United States. [1] As a member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) at that time, Dr. John Lauber stated that the possible causes of this accident include "The failure of Continental Express management to build a corporate culture that encourages and enforces compliance with approved maintenance and quality assurance procedures" (NTSB/AAR-92/04, 1992, page 54, as quoted in Meshkati , 1997). As a result of this and other similar aviation accidents, safety culture was at the forefront of exclusive topics at the US National Transportation Safety Summit, hosted by NTSB in 1997.

The movement for air safety continued with the entry into force on 5 April 2000, the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, also called AIR 21.

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Dramatization

The Discovery Channel Canada/National Geographic TV series Mayday featured an accident in the 11th season episode titled "Breakup Over Texas" .

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See also

• Emery Worldwide Flight 17

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References

This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents from the National Transportation Safety Agency.

• Meshkati, N. (April 1997). Human performance, organizational factors and safety culture. Paper presented at National Summit by NTSB on transport safety. Washington, D.C.

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External links

• NTSB abstract
• NTSB Letter
• Aircraft One data
• Horswell, Cindy, T. J. Miller, Rad Sallee. "An accident in Colorado County/Attendant on a condemned plane has resigned to take a new job." Houston Chronicle . Saturday, September 14, 1991. A27. Available from the Houston Public Library section of the library, accessible by library card and PIN

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