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Air Canada Accident in YHZ

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150221 NOTAMN CYHZ HALIFAX/STANFIELD INTL
CYHZ RWY 05/23 CLSD
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Aircraft disabled on runway. Heavy damage to nose and port wing of an AC A320 apparently. Landing 05 and apparently the power at the airport failed. Aircraft disabled near taxiway bravo, which is very very short for landing on 05.

All second hand info at this point, waiting for more official words from media, AC, or TC.
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Been sitting at our gate here in YHZ waiting for things to improve. Strong crosswind and poor CRFI. Everyone seems to be ok after evacuation. Last group of people still waiting to get picked up off the button of 05. There was a power failure right as they were on short final.
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Funny how RT is reporting before anyone else:

http://rt.com/news/244953-air-canada-crash-halifax/
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Hope everyone is indeed ok.

Did the power failure happen before the crash, or did the a/c damage something? The wording of the early reports is unclear on that. If it happened before the crash...how is that possible? I was under the impression that runway lighting and approach navaids were backed up by a generator that was running anytime the airport was IMC.
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I_Heart_Seaplanes wrote:Hope everyone is indeed ok.

Did the power failure happen before the crash, or did the a/c damage something? The wording of the early reports is unclear on that. If it happened before the crash...how is that possible? I was under the impression that runway lighting and approach navaids were backed up by a generator that was running anytime the airport was IMC.
Well I doubt that the aircraft damaged power lines to the airport, those tend to be kept away from runway approaches for this very reason.

As to the generator, YHZ does have backup power. But generators do fail, a lot. I don't want to make guesses right now as to why all the power failed.

I am hoping everyone onboard the flight is safe, and injuries are minor or non-existant. Hopefully the CBC or AC will release a statement to that effect soon.
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AC's twitter eludes to it being an overrun. The ex at YHZ isn't anything nice thats for sure...

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boxcut wrote:Well I doubt that the aircraft damaged power lines to the airport, those tend to be kept away from runway approaches for this very reason.
MKs 742 crash 10 years ago took out power to the airport, its off the end of 23.
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pianokeys wrote:AC's twitter eludes to it being an overrun.
AC Twitter:
Confirms AC624, YYZ-YHZ exited runway upon landing at Halifax. All passengers have deplaned, going to terminal. More updates to come.

Exited the runway doesn't mean overrun. Good to know that all passengers got off the aircraft.

Here is the end of runway 5, so there are powerlines there, but if they clipped them, that would be some serious damage since they'd hit that hill and all the lights onthe approach for sure.

https://maps.google.ca/maps?ll=44.86362 ... 99,,0,-0.3
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Exited = excursion.
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I wonder if it caused the outage, or if the outage caused the crash, as in the outage was at the worst possible time around DH.

True, exited doesn't mean an overrun, but it also doesn't mean it wasn't an overrun. CRFI was pretty shitty.

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I'd say a power outage would likely have to be in the flair to cause this, not at DH. If the lights go out around DH they are going missed. This has actually happened to me and there is plenty of time to react, even lower than DH. I highly doubt the power went out before the crash.
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Deadwood wrote:Photo of the aircraft
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There is nattering online about power lines along Old Guysborough Road having been knocked down by the aircraft on approach. I had a look on google street view. The lines are not buried in the vicinity of the approach paths, but don't appear to be particularly high or close to the ends of the runways either.

Google street view of wires and 05 approach lights.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.863427,- ... !2e0?hl=en

I know perspectives and photos can be deceiving, but it certainly looks like if one caught those wires on approach, the approach lights are going to be way too close for comfort a second later as well.
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I am very relieved to hear no one was killed. Great quote from the CBC article:
Spurway said the incident was not a crash because it is believed the plane was under control as it came in. He said there's no indication what caused the hard landing and he did not know the condition of the plane.
I believe this is virtually the definition of CFIT. Not the accident itself, just the quote "because it was under control as it came in".

Again I am relieved everyone is alive. Also, I've been at the Halifax airport all night, been interesting.
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Glad everyone got out alive!

Too early to say, but with that weather I wonder if guys did an autoland? If the power failed around the same time and generators didn't kick in, maybe the guys lost the "flare" and "rollout" capability in final stages of landing and the plane hit hard the runway (as some media reported) .....??

As I said glad everyone got out..but it sure will be bad press for Airbus this week.
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There is no ILS on 05 for an autoland. I believe the power outage was due to the aircraft clipping something. We heard their landing clearance, then the power went out, and a few seconds later ATC got fire trucks rolling. There was no communication from the aircraft. The location they were instructed to go to was taxiway B on 05. Incidentally, that's at about the 1000ft mark.
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Thanks CFM, didn't know what runway was in use.
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