IL76, vicinity Karachi Pakistan, 2010

IL76, vicinity Karachi Pakistan, 2010

Summary

On 27 November 2010, collateral damage to the wing of an IL-76 in the vicinity of an uncontained engine failure, which occurred soon after take-off from Karachi, led to fuel in that wing igniting. Descent from a maximum height of 600 feet occurred accompanied by a steadily increasing right bank. Just under a minute after take-off ground impact occurred and impact forces and fire destroyed the aircraft. The Investigation concluded that the engine failure was attributable to component fatigue in the LP compressor and that it would have been impossible for the crew to retain control.

Description

On 27 November 2010, an Ilyushin IL-76TD (4L-GNI) being operated by Sunway Air Carrier (Georgia) on a non-scheduled international cargo flight from Karachi to Douala, Cameroon via Khartoum caught fire and crashed shortly after take-off in night VMC. The aircraft was destroyed by ground impact and a post crash fire. All six flight crew on board were killed.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Pakistan Safety Investigation Board (SIB). Relevant data was successfully recovered from the FDR for use in the Investigation by the MAK but the same agency was unable to obtain any data for the Investigation from either of the two CVRs installed on the aircraft due to their accident-damaged condition after recovery from the wreckage.

The 6 man flight crew of the aircraft was as follows:

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