Brazilian plane crash

At least 176 people are feared dead after a passenger jet crashed and burst into flames after apparently skidding off a runway at Brazil's airport.



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ASN ACCIDENT DIGEST 2007-10

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Status: Preliminary
Date: 17 JUL 2007
Time: 18:45
Type: Airbus A.320-233
Operator: TAM Linhas Aéreas
Registration: PR-MBK
C/n / msn: 789
First flight: 1998-02-13
Total airframe hrs: ca 20000
Cycles: ca 9300
Engines: 2 IAE V2527-A5 jet engines
Crew: Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Passengers: Fatalities: 180 / Occupants: 180
Total: Fatalities: 186 / Occupants: 186
Ground casualties: 3
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH) ( Brazil )
Phase: Landing
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Porto Alegre-Salgado Filho International Airport, RS (POA/SBPA), Brazil
Destination airport: São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH/SBSP), Brazil
Flightnumber: JJ3054
Narrative:
TAM Flight 3054 was a regular flight from Porto Alegre (POA) to São Paulo-Congonhas (CGH). The Airbus A.320 departed Porto Alegre at 17:16. It was raining as the flight approached São Paulo. Initial press reports indicate that the pilot executed a go around after attempting to land on runway 35L. A fire department spokesman said that the airplane cleared the perimeter fence and a busy highway. Failing to gain enough height, it collided with a concrete building, bursting into flames.
Runway 35L is a 6365 x 147 feet (1940 x 45 meters) asphalt runway. TORA ,ASDA, TODA are all 1940 m, LDA 1880m.
Weather around the time of the accident (21:45Z) was reported as:
SBSP 172100Z 34008KT 6000 -RA BKN009 OVC070 16/14 Q1018=
SBSP 172200Z 35008KT 7000 -RA BKN008 OVC070 15/14 Q1018=

Sources:
» TAM press releases
» Airbus Media Information on TAM JJ3054 (Issue 1)
» At least 189 dead in Brazil air crash (AP 18-7-2007)
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE AIRBUS A.320
* Last fatal hull-loss accident: 03 MAY 2006 Armavia, EK-32009, off Adler/Sochi Airport, Russia - 105 fatalities
* Total number of hull-losses: 16 (11 accidents, 5 other occurrences (ground fire etc.)), of which 7 losses were fatal
* Worst A.320 accident
* history of this airplane:
- F-WWDT Airbus (FEB 1998, first flight)
- N454TA TACA (MAR 1998, delivered)
- VN-A168 Pacific Airlines (DEC 2003)
- N454TA Pegasus Aviation (OCT 2006)
- PR-MBK TAM (JAN 2007)
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AIRPORT PROFILE SAO PAULO-CONGONHAS
* ICAO/IATA designators: SBSP / CGH
* Latitude: 23° 37' 36.09" S / 046° 39' 19.35" W
* Elevation: 2631 ft/ 802 m
* Runway: 17R/35L (6365 x 147 feet, asphalt, ILS)
Runway: 17L/35R (4708 x 147 feet, asphalt, no ILS)
* Current NOTAMS: https://www.notams.jcs.mil/distribution/query.html?locid=&textType=report&locidl=SBSP
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OPERATOR PROFILE TAM
Large Brazilian passenger airline operating on domestic and international routes. It was founded in 1961 as a small air taxi company.
The airline suffered 13 hull-loss accidents.
* Founded: 1961
* Web: http://www.tam.com.br/
* More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAM_Linhas_A%C3%A9reas
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COUNTRY PROFILE BRAZIL
* Last fatal airliner hull-loss accident: 29 SEP 2006 Boeing 737-8EH PR-GTD of Gol Transportes Aéreos, near Peixoto Azevedo, MT- 154 fatalities
* Worst airliner accident in Brazil
* The country is rated Cat. 1 (meeting ICAO standards) in FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)
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