Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216

Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 that overran the runway at La Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City, on 21 December 1999. Eight passengers and eight crew members on board were killed as well as two people on the ground.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216
The aircraft involved in the accident in 1993 while still in service with Air Afrique
Accident
Date21 December 1999
SummaryRunway overrun
SiteLa Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Total fatalities18 (2 on ground)
Total injuries57 (20 on ground)
Aircraft
Aircraft typeMcDonnell Douglas DC-10
OperatorCubana de Aviación
RegistrationF-GTDI
Flight originJosé Martí International Airport, Havana, Cuba
DestinationLa Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Passengers296
Crew18
Fatalities16
Injuries37
Survivors298
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities2
Ground injuries20

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, registration F-GTDI, leased by Cubana de Aviación from AOM French Airlines. It was just under 27 years old and had flown 85,760 hours at the time of the accident.[1] It had been previously owned by Air Afrique with registration TU-TAL and was involved in the hijacking of Air Afrique Flight 056.[2]

Accident

Flight 1216 was a special charter transporting Guatemalan students home from universities in Cuba.[3] The aircraft took off from José Martí International Airport in Cuba with 296 passengers and 18 crew on board.[1] After a two-hour flight the aircraft was cleared to land on Runway 19 at La Aurora International Airport. On landing the pilots were unable to stop the aircraft and it ran off the end of the runway and down a slope, crashing into ten houses. The accident killed 18 people in all: eight passengers and eight crew members on board the aircraft, and two occupants of the houses.[4] There were 298 passengers and crew who survived; however 37, passengers and crew and another 20 people on the ground were injured in the accident.[4] The aircraft was damaged beyond repair and written off.

The crash occurred in the La Libertad neighborhood. Jorge Toledo, the Cuban pilot, was among the dead.[3][5]

Cause

The accident was investigated by the Sección de Investigación de Accidentes of Guatemala's Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil. The investigation found that the aircraft touched down too far along the wet runway with insufficient deceleration, and that the crew had failed to initiate a go-around. The spoilers was found in the down and locked position, while the FDR showed them deployed. The handle for the spoilers in the cockpit was found in an undefinied position. The reason for this discrepancy wasn't determined by the accident investigation.[4]

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See also

References
  1. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 F-GTDI Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport (GUA)". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  2. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 TU-TAL Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  3. "Pilot error suspected in Guatemala crash". CNN. Reuters. 22 December 1999. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  4. "Guatemalan Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil, Sección de Investigación de Accidentes official report" (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 February 2012.
  5. Villelabeitia, Ibon (23 December 1999). "Pilot Error Suspected In Cuban Crash". South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
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