Airbus A300 - F4 622R accident near Birmingham, AL

On August 14, 2013, an Airbus A300 - F4 622R (airplane) was involved in an accident near Birmingham, AL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.

Date

August 14, 2013

Place

Birmingham, AL

Aircraft

Airbus A300 - F4 622R · Airplane

Injuries

2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor

Damage

Destroyed

Position

33.564°N, 86.802°W

NTSB ID

20130814X15751

Official records · DCA13MA133

• Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
• Investigation page: status, final report and safety recommendations

Air traffic control records

• ATC 3 - Factual Report of Group Chairman: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• ATC 3 - Attachment 1 - BAA - ATC Airport Emergency Operating Procedures Letter of Agreement: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• ATC 3 - Attachment 2 - BHM Air Traffic Controller Statements: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• ATC 3 - Attachment 4 - FAA ATC Transcript: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• Transcript - Public Hearing - February 20, 2014: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov

NTSB summary

The Safety Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/aviation.aspx. The Aircraft Accident Report number is NTSB/AAR-14/02. On August 14, 2013, about 0447 central daylight time (CDT), United Parcel Service (UPS) flight 1354, an Airbus A300-600, N155UP, crashed short of runway 18 during a localizer nonprecision approach to runway 18 at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM), Birmingham, Alabama. The captain and first officer were fatally injured, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and postcrash fire. The nonscheduled cargo flight was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 121 on an instrument flight rules flight plan, and dark night visual flight rules conditions prevailed at the airport; variable instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) with a variable ceiling were present north of the airport on the approach course at the time of the accident. The flight originated from Louisville International Airport-Standiford Field (SDF), Louisville, Kentucky, about 0503 eastern daylight time (EDT).

Probable cause

the flight crew's continuation of an unstabilized approach and their failure to monitor the aircraft's altitude during the approach, which led to an inadvertent descent below the minimum approach altitude and subsequently into terrain. Contributing to the accident were (1) the flight crew's failure to properly configure and verify the flight management computer for the profile approach; (2) the ca

From Wikipedia

UPS Airlines Flight 1354 was a scheduled cargo flight from Louisville, Kentucky, to Birmingham, Alabama. On August 14, 2013, the Airbus A300 flying the route crashed and burst into flames short of the runway on approach to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport. Both pilots were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. They were the only people aboard the aircraft. It was the second fatal air crash for UPS Airlines.

Text from Wikipedia, “UPS Airlines Flight 1354”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.

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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.