Turkish Airlines Flight 1951

16.12.2014Dora Akcan

Kubilay BaranYiğit Öztuna

Eray Arkış

May Day PresentationENG 105

Lecturer: Ayfer Karaca

Outlines

• Introduction (describing the event)

• Investigation

• Impact of the Disaster

• Conclusion (opinion)

Introduction

• Date: 25 February 2009

• Site:North of the Polderbaan runway (nearAmsterdam Airport Schiphol)

• Aircraft Type: Boeing 737

• Aircraft Name: Tekirdağ

• Operator: Turkish Airlines

• Registration: TC-JGE

• Flight Origin: Istanbul Atatürk Airport, Istanbul, Turkey

• Destination: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Injuries (non-fatal): 86 (including 6 critical and 25 severe)

• Fatalities: 9

• Survivors: 126

Nationality People Fatalities

Netherlands 53 0

Turkey 51 (inc. 7 crew) 5 (inc. 4 crew)

United States 7 4

United Kingdom 3 0

Germany 1 0

Bulgaria 1 0

Italy 1 0

Taiwan 1 0

Total 125 (inc. 7 crew) 9 (inc. 4 crew)

Flight

• 128 Passengers

• 7 Flight Crew

• Instructor Captain Hasan Tahsin Arisan

• Olcay Özgür, safety pilot

• Murat Sezer, co-pilot under line training

• The cabin crew :Figen Eren, Perihan Özden, Ulvi Murat Eskin and Yasemin Vural

Investigation

1-Led by the Dutch Safety Board

2-Turkish Airlines and a representative team of the American NTSB

3-The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch, and the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la

sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA)

Important Details

• Faulty radio altimeter, aggravated by pilot errors, stall

Impact• Dutch Safety Board

has published a report of his research associate with the accident in May 2010

• According to this report , main reason showed that two height indicator had different values .

Technically• 1-Boeing improved the reliability of the height

measuring system.

• 2-US Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)improved radio altimes system for safety.Thus, they prevent unwanted situations like this.

• 3- Boeing, FAA ve EASA developed audible/voice warning system during the low speed flight.

• Normally all of the types of the aircrafts have this system. For example ; If the aircraft approaches the minimum speed, warning goes to the crew.

• ( GPWS ground proximity warning system )

Operational

• Boeing reviewed ; Approach to stall system

• This system include autothrottle and trimming

• Turkish Civil Aviation , International Civil Aviation Association ( ICAO) , FAA and EASA changed their training which given to pilots about approach to stall.

CONCLUSİON