REPORT ON AEROPLANE COLLIDED
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REPORT ON AEROPLANE COLLIDED
This week's Air Safety Institute's "Accident of the Week" tells what the NTSB found in a midair collision about five years ago near Chicago, one with important similarities to last week's tragic Denver midair collision. The 1997 collision of a Cessna 172 and a Beech Bonanza three miles south of Meigs Field left all occupants of both airplanes dead.
The weather at the time of the accident was VFR, with scattered clouds at 15,000 feet and a visibility of 10 miles.
The 172 was southbound toward Meigs Field, sightseeing over Lake Michigan, while the Bonanza was approaching Meigs from the south for landing on runway 36. Meigs ATC asked the pilot of the 172 for an "abeam the airport" advisory, and advised of the Bonanza. (The Bonanza pilot was not advised of the 172.) Witnesses in the area said the airplanes collided at approximately 1000 feet over the lake.
The NTSB stated that the cause of the accident was the pilots' not maintaining visual separation. A factor was the failure of the 172 pilot to report abeam the airport.
An Air Safety Instituten study of midair collisions revealed that 49 percent occurred in the traffic pattern or on approach to or departure from an airport. Of the other 51 percent, about half occurred during en route climb, cruise, or descent, and the rest resulted from formation flights or other hazardous activities. Eighty percent of the midair collisions that occurred during "normal" flight activities happened within ten miles of an airport, and 78 percent of the midair collisions that occurred around the traffic pattern happened at nontowered airports. Important strategies for avoiding these mishaps can be found in two of the institutes's Safety Advisors, Operations at Nontowered Airports, and Collision Avoidance: Strategies and Tactics.
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