Preliminary Reports
Eight Deaths in Fiery Takeoff Accident
IAI 1124A WestWind II, March 29, 2020, Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, the Philippines – All eight on board perished and the aircraft was destroyed after catching fire during its takeoff roll on Runway 06. The medevac flight was departing for Haneda, Japan. Witnesses reported seeing sparks coming off the runway before the jet reached Taxiway R2. They continued until the airplane departed the runway safety area at the H1 intersection, struck two runway edge lights and a concrete electric junction box, and came to rest against the airport perimeter fence, where it was consumed by fire. Chunks of rubber, metal debris, and scrape marks from the hub of the right main wheel were found on the runway. Scrape marks from the left main wheel began near H1, where much of the left main tire was recovered. In addition to six Filipinos, the casualties included one U.S. and one Canadian citizen.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (IG) criticized the FAA’s supervision of “doors-off” helitour operators in a recently released audit report. That audit was requested by New York’s two U.S. senators in 2019 following the March 2018 fatal crash of a FlyNYON doors-off tour.
In that accident, all five passengers remained strapped in and drowned after the Airbus AS350B2, operated for FlyNYON by Liberty Helicopters, successfully autorotated into the East River, but then rolled inverted after its emergency pop-out floats failed to fully deploy. Physical and electronic accident evidence showed that the passengers were unable to extricate themselves from the commercial, off-the-shelf supplemental restraints they were wearing.
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