Fairchild VH-NEJ (September 16, 1995)

Date: September 16, 1995
Passengers: 1 (trainee)
Crew: 2
Fatalities: 2
Cause: “Organisational factors by the operating company: an inadequate Metro III endorsement training syllabus in the company operations manual; inadequate assessment of the risks involved in night V1 cuts, and assigning the check-and-training pilot a task for which he did not possess adequate experience, knowledge, or skills. Organisational factors involving the regulator included a lack of enabling legislation prohibiting low-level night asymmetric operations, deficient requirements for co-pilot conversion training, inadequate advice given to the operator concerning night asymmetric operations and the carriage of
additional trainees on training flights, deficient training and approval process for check-and-training pilots, and insufficient quality control of the company operations manual."


Legend:
CAM     Cockpit area microphone or sound source
RDO     Radio transmission from accident aircraft
TWR     Tamworth Aerodrome Control
-1      Voice identified as (check & training) pilot
-2      Voice identified as co-pilot
-?      Voice unidentified
*       Unintelligible word
@       Non-pertinent word
#       Expletive
( )     Questionable insertion
(( ))   Editorial insertion
...     Pause
Times are expressed in EST


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1956:49		RDO-1	November Echo Juliet's ready

1956:52		TWR		November Echo Juliet clear for takeoff make right turn and intercept any radial as required

1956:57		RDO-1	November Echo Juliet roger make right turn

1957:00		CAM-1	OK we're right to go

1957:03		CAM-2	What ah what call do I say here. I have to say set takeoff torque

1957:05		CAM-1	Yeah you wait for all my calls and then you say set takeoff torque. OK

1957:13		CAM-1	The annunciators clear

1957:15		CAM-1	Ah you have sort of don't fight me on the levers yeah. Everything rise torques and temps

1957:18		CAM-2	Ah set take

1957:19		CAM-1	Both airspeeds are alive

1957:20		CAM-2	Set takeoff torque thanks

1957:22		CAM-2	Should I be pushing up cause I'm not doing much with those power levers there

1957:25		CAM-1	That's right. I should be doing it for you or helping you

1957:29		CAM-1	Torque set

1957:30		CAM-1	Vee one. Rotate

1957:33		CAM-1	Just ten degrees Edward. Yeah

1957:38		CAM-1	I think we've got an engine failure

1957:39		CAM-2	Yep

1957:41		CAM-1	Set max power eh
			CAM-2	Are you gonna

1957:42		CAM-2	Set oh sorry set max power

1957:43		CAM-1	Yep you got it

1957:44		CAM-2	Positive rrr

1957:45		CAM-1	Yeah positive rate yeah

1957:46		CAM-2	Gear up thanks

1957:47		CAM-1	Yeah
			CAM		((sound of gear warning horn starts))

1957:50		CAM-2	It's the ah left engine

1957:51		CAM-1	Vee two thanks

1957:53		CAM-2	Left engine

1957:54		CAM-1	Just don't lower the nose too much. Don't fight it

1957:55		CAM-1	That's it. Yair left engine we've got no EGT and low fuel flow there

1958:00		CAM-2	(Arthen) we'll ah feather the left then thanks

1958:02		CAM-1	OK vee two thanks hold vee two

1958:05		CAM-1	We're descending. Feather the left one. OK it's feathered

1958:06		CAM		((sound of gear warning horn stops))

1958:07		CAM-?	* *
			CAM		((sounds of impact))

1958:09				((end of recording))