Boeing 767 accident near Trinity Bay, TX
On February 23, 2019, a Boeing 767 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Trinity Bay, TX. 3 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- February 23, 2019
- Place
- Trinity Bay, TX
- Aircraft
- Boeing 767 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 29.770°N, 94.660°W
- NTSB ID
- 20190223X60222
Official records · DCA19MA086
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
- Investigation page: status, final report and safety recommendations
Air traffic control records
- Air Traffic Control Attachment 4 A�� ATC Audio Recording: Audio recording (WAV), on ntsb.gov
- Air Traffic Control Attachment 7 A�� Atis Recording: Audio recording (MP3), on ntsb.gov
- Air Traffic Control Group Factual Report: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
- Air Traffic Control Attachment 2 A�� Radar Data: Document (PPB), on ntsb.gov
- Air Traffic Control Attachment 3 A�� Aircraft Accident Package: Document (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-20/02. On February 23, 2019, at 1239 central standard time, Atlas Air Inc. flight 3591, a Boeing 767-375BCF, N1217A, was destroyed after it rapidly descended from an altitude of about 6,000 ft mean sea level and crashed into a shallow, muddy marsh area of Trinity Bay, Texas, about 41 miles east-southeast of George Bush Intercontinental/Houston Airport (IAH), Houston, Texas. The captain, first officer, and a nonrevenue pilot riding in the jumpseat died. Atlas operated the airplane as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 domestic cargo flight for Amazon.com Services LLC, and an instrument flight rules flight plan was filed. The flight departed from Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida, about 1033 (1133 eastern standard time) and was destined for IAH.
Probable cause
The inappropriate response by the first officer as the pilot flying to an inadvertent activation of the go-around mode, which led to his spatial disorientation and nose-down control inputs that placed the airplane in a steep descent from which the crew did not recover. Contributing to the accident was the captain's failure to adequately monitor the airplane's flightpath and assume positive control
From Wikipedia
Atlas Air Flight 3591 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight between Miami International Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, operated by Atlas Air on behalf of Amazon Air. On February 23, 2019, the Boeing 767 operating this flight crashed into Trinity Bay during approach into Houston, killing the two crew members and single passenger on board. The accident occurred near Anahuac, Texas, east of Houston, shortly before 12:45 CST (18:45 UTC). This was the first fatal crash of a Boeing 767 freighter, and the first fatal crash involving Amazon Air.
Investigators attributed the accident to pilot error, finding that the first officer – who had years of flight performance issues at four previous airlines – experienced spatial disorientation and inadvertently placed the aircraft in an unrecoverable dive, while the captain failed to adequately monitor the first officer's actions and the flight path of the aircraft. Flight crew training issues at Atlas Air and across the U.S. commercial aviation industry were also implicated.
Text from Wikipedia, “Atlas Air Flight 3591”, 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.
