Details On American Airbus A300 That Crashed In New York Nov. 12
Compiled By AviationNow.com Staff
12-Nov-2001 1:26 PM U.S. EST
Technical information on the American Airbus A300 that crashed near New York John F. Kennedy Airport on Nov. 12:
Aircraft Type: Airbus A300-605R
Registration: N14053
Manufacturer Fuselage No: 420
Rollout date: December 1986
Delivery date: July 12, 1988 to American Airlines by Airbus
Owner: Chase Manhattan Bank (leased to American Airlines)
Engines: Two General Electric CF6-80C2A5s
Airframe maintenance information
Last A Check: Nov. 11, 2001
Last B Check: Oct. 3, 2001
Last Heavy Maintenance Check: Dec. 9, 1999 (N14053 was scheduled for heavy maintenance visit in July 2002).
Engine Maintenance Information
No. 1 Engine: 694 hours since last overhaul
No. 2 Engine: 9,788 hours since last overhaul; 2,887 hours since last shop inspection. (Overhauls typically done every 10,000 hours).
Notes:
American operated 35 A300-600s, including N14053. Of the remaining 34, 10 are owned by the airline.
N14053 was the oldest of American's 35 A300-600s, although it was the seventh A300-600 to join the carrier's fleet.
Sources: American Airlines, Back Information Services, JP Airline Fleets Int'l.
This from the NTSB site
NTSB Identification: DCA99IA058 Scheduled 14 CFRPart 121 operation of Air Carrier AMERICAN AIRLINES
Incident occurred Tuesday, May 11, 1999 at MIAMI, FL
Aircraft:Airbus 300-600, registration: N7082A
Injuries: 129 Uninjured.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed.
On Tuesday, May 11, 1999, at 1445 EDT, an American Airlines A300, flight 916, a scheduled passenger service from Bogota, Columbia, to Miami, Florida, landed successfully after the flightcrew experienced multiple rudder deflections that caused the airplane to yaw excessively from side to side while on final approach to runway 9R. There were no reported injuries to the 119 passengers or crew of 10.
Preliminary information from both the American Airlines engineering group and a Safety Board crew interview indicates that during the initial approach to runway 9R, as the crew configured the airplane for landing with flaps 40 degrees and the landing gear down, the airplane began to yaw left and right. The flightcrew stated in an interview that the rudder pedals in the cockpit did not move, though the rudder was deflecting and causing a yaw motion that was sufficient to prompt the captain to abandon the first landing. During the go around, and specifically, as the airplane was reconfigured with the landing gear up and flaps at 20 degrees for the go around, the yaw deviations increased and became extreme. The crew reconfigured the airplane twice during the go around and completed the landing with 20 degrees of flaps.
Initial information from American's FDR readout indicates that the rudder which is a single panel with three hydraulic actuators, deviated continuously but not rhythmically between 5 and 11 degrees each side of center during both approaches. The FDR has been transported to the Safety Board for additional readout.