![]() ^ "UPS: Crashed 747 was three years old"."Dubai: Plane Crashes Onto Motorway Setting Fire To Cars - Crew Missing". ^ "Cargo plane crashes near Dubai motorway killing two".The FAA issued a restriction on the carrying of lithium batteries in bulk on passenger flights. In October 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a Safety Alert For Operators highlighting the fact that the cargo on board Flight 6 contained a large quantity of lithium batteries and that Halon 1301 was inefficient in fighting fires involving them. On November 5, 2010, Al Qaeda's Yemen wing, the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, took responsibility for Flight 6's crash as part of the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot. government official said that investigators so far have not found any connections to terrorism in regards to the crash. In October 2010, Boeing announced that fire indication checklists were to be modified to instruct pilots that at least one of the three air conditioning systems must be left in operation in order to prevent excessive smoke accumulation on the flight deck. On September 23, 2010, the GCAA reported that 100% of the material contained in the Cockpit Voice Recorder and Flight Data Recorder was successfully downloaded by the NTSB and that the data was being analyzed. UPS Airlines followed FAA regulations, which stated that pilots should depressurize the main cabin and climb to an altitude of at least 20,000 feet (6,100 m) upon detection of a fire so as to deprive the flames of oxygen. Around the time of the crash, the National Transportation Safety Board had asked the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to install automatic fire extinguisher systems in the holds of cargo aircraft. Prior to the crash of UPS Flight 6, debate over whether manufacturers and regulators had been doing enough to prevent airborne fires had occurred. The crash also revived concerns over whether smoke hoods should be allowed in the cockpit. The investigation revived safety concerns about the effects of smoke in the cockpit. On Septemthe head of the GCAA, director general Saif al Suwaidi, said that it was too early to determine exactly what the cause of the crash was. The investigators are checking the cargo to determine what was loaded on the aircraft. According to Associated Press sources, people familiar with the investigation said that the fire may have started in the cargo compartment. Īs of September 8, 2010, the GCAA and UPS did not comment on the progress of the investigation. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were sent to the United States for analysis by the National Transportation Safety Board on September 10, 2010. UPS also sent its own investigation team. The government of Bahrain decided to conduct its own investigation into the accident. On September 7, the authorities discovered the flight data recorder. įollowing the recovery of the cockpit voice recorder, the GCAA issued a preliminary report on the September 5, 2010. Boeing offered to send a team to the United Arab Emirates to provide technical assistance in the investigation process. The National Transportation Safety Board announced that it would dispatch an aviation investigator to assist the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in its investigation of the crash. The accident was the first fatal accident involving UPS Airlines. Both crew members were based in UPS's Anchorage, Alaska pilot base. ![]() The captain, 48-year old Doug Lampe of Louisville, Kentucky, and the first officer, 38-year old Matthew Bell from Sanford, Florida, died. The aircraft crashed in an unpopulated area between the Emirates Road and Al Ain Highway. The aircraft was too high on the approach and passed over the airport before making a tight turn radar contact was lost shortly thereafter at 15:42 UTC. Although they were offered a diversion to Doha, Qatar, the pilots returned to Dubai, and were instructed to land on the airport's runway 12L. The pilots were under the control of Bahrain's air traffic control, and they could not initially contact Dubai air traffic control due to a radio failure. Crashįlight 6 departed from Dubai International at 14:53 UTC and at 15:15 the crew reported a fire in the cockpit when the aircraft was around 120 nautical miles (220 km) west-northwest of Dubai, and declared an emergency. Before the crash, it was among the newest (#1,393 of 1,418 the 26th from the last) Boeing 747-400s built. It had flown for a total of 9,977 hours, and had a major inspection performed in June 2010. The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 747-400F, registered N571UP and was delivered to UPS Airlines in 2007. ![]()
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