Flight 5672 Air France
The flight 5672 of Air France is a plane crash having taken place the June 22nd 2003 close to the Aéroport of Brest-Guipavas.
The apparatus
The apparatus is a CRJ 100 registered F-GRJS. It was brought into service the March 21st 2000. Exploited by Brit Air, it counts at the time of the accident 6.649 hours of flight and 6.552 cycles.
The crew
- Commander: 53 year old man. Pilot in function, it leaves behind him 16.000 hours of flight, including 5.300 on CRJ 100.
- Copilot: 38 year old man. Pilot not in function, it counted 4.800 hours of flight, including 650 on CRJ 100. It should be noted that it had not stolen the day before, because it was involved on simulator with Morlaix.
Flight
The apparatus takes off of the Aéroport of Nantes to 23:05 bound for the Aéroport of Brest-Guipavas with on board 3 team members and 21 passengers. During the flight, the crew passes to the North-East of the trajectory envisaged in order to avoid Cumulonimbus. The approach is started with 23:36. In approach THEY on track 26, the plane deviates on the left from the axis of approach. It passes to the top then to the lower part of the plan of descent, then touches the ground with 23:51 ' 22" with the Kérintin locality, with 2.350 meters of the threshold of track and 450 meters of the axis of approach. The apparatus runs up against several trees, then ends up being immobilized with a few meters of a property. The apparatus blazes up.
The assessment
The commander is the only victim of the accident, which also makes 5 wounded, of which the copilot. The apparatus is entirely destroyed by the fire.
Causes of the accident
The conditions weather at the time of the accident were bad: the cloudy ceiling was of 200 ft (60 meters) and the visibility on the ground was of 800 meters. The accident is due:- With the omission of the selection of mode APPR at the beginning of the approach, which led to not captures localizer then glide (what successively explains why, during the approach, the plane did not remain on the axis of track and descent)
- With detection partial of the variations of trajectory due to the focusing of the crew on vertical navigation then on horizontal navigation.
- With the continuation until the altitude of decision of a not stabilized approach.
- lack of communication and of coordination between the pilot and the copilot.
- change of strategy of the controller in the management of the plane.
Additional bonds
- Final report of the Office of investigations and analysis