Crash During a Nighttime Nonprecision Instrument Approach to Landing Airbus A300-600, N155UP Birming

Crash During a Nighttime Nonprecision Instrument Approach to Landing Airbus A300-600, N155UP Birming

Publication info
Author
NTSB
Category
Controlled Flight Into Terrain Human Factors
Date of publication
09/09/2014

On 14 August 2013, a UPS Airbus A300-600 crashed short of the runway at Birmingham Alabama during a night non precision approach in IMC after the crew has failed to go around at 1000ft aal when unstabilised at that altitude and then continued descent below MDA until terrain impact. The Investigation attributed the accident to the individually poor performance of both pilots, to performance deficiencies previously-exhibited in recurrent training by the Captain and to the First Officer's failure to call in fatigued and unfit to fly after mis-managing her off duty time.

SKYbrary Partners:

Safety knowledge contributed by: