Aircraft Upset - Related Accidents

Related Accidents

• 1974-03-03 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (cargo door failure, caused severing of essential flight control cables).
• 1979-04-04 TWA Flight 841 (1979) (Improper manipulation of flaps/slats by pilots; the plane high dived from 39,000 ft. to 5,000 ft, in 63 seconds. Landed safely.)
• 1985-08-12 Japan Airlines Flight 123 (Improper repair caused bulkhead explosion, which severed all hydraulic flight control lines)
• 1989-07-19 United Airlines Flight 232 (Catastrophic engine failure caused loss of all 3 hydraulic flight control lines)
• 1994-06-30 1994 A330 test flight crash (Control was lost after the pilot shut down one engine, close to the ground, during a certification test flight)
• 1994-09-08 USAir Flight 427 (Control lost when the rudder PCU malfunctioned, causing the rudder to move in the opposite direction, commanded by the pilot)
• 1994-10-31 American Eagle Flight 4184 While in a holding pattern, extensive ice accumulation produced a sudden reversal of the aileron controls, causing the plane to upset and dive into the ground.
• 1994-12-11 Philippine Airlines Flight 434
• 2001-11-12 American Airlines Flight 587
• 2003-11-22 DHL Baghdad incident
• 2005-03-06 Air Transat Flight 961
• 2007-01-01 Adam Air Flight 574
• 2009-02-12 Colgan Air Flight 3407