"Hello there viewers...Keiko here again...*Keiko proceeds to go and currently say this while also traditionally bowing to the viewers as per usual. To which Keiko then proceeds to go and bring her attention and both of her brown colored eyes back up again, in order to go and continue to properly address the viewers. Keiko also now proceeds to go and briefly clear her throat, as Keiko then proceeds to go and continue, to properly address the viewers*...
Now then viewers, for this chapter I will once again be covering several more transportation related accidents in history...And for this particular chapter viewers as like the last one, we will be covering another three of them...
And each of them, as shown by the chapter title of this particular chapter, will be of three more having to do with aviation...
With one of which that was attributed in some way, to an act of terrorism...
As well as another one of which was attributed in some way, to a mid air collision...
And finally one that was attributed in some way, to pilot error...
Now then viewers, lets begin with the first of the three aviation accidents...
And for this one, we will start by going all the way back, to October 31, 2015...
And on this particular day...Metrojet Flight 9268...Which was an international chartered passenger flight, operated by the Russian airline Kogalymavia, or as it had been recently rebranded as, Metrojet...
And on this particular flight, the aircraft being used to operate the route was an 18 year old Airbus A321-231...
And on board Flight 9268, were 2 pilots, 5 flight attendants, and 217 passengers, for a total of 224 passengers and crew on board Flight 9268...
The captain of Metrojet Flight 9268 was 47 year old Valery Yurievich Nemov, who had amassed more than 12,000 hours of flight time, which included 3,800 hours on the Airbus A321...
And the first officer was 37 year old Sergei Stanislavovich Trukhachev First Officer Trukhachev, who had 5,641 hours of flight time, which included more than 1,300 hours on the Airbus A321...
And as for what wound up happening with regard to the incident that would result involving Flight 9268?...
And notice here viewers that I said incident and not accident...
And that is because like that of Pan Am Flight 103 that was covered in a previous chapter, Metrojet Flight 9268 was also brought down by an act of terrorism...
But in this case instead of a pound of plastic explosives, Flight 9268 was brought down by an IED, or an Improvised Explosive Device...
An IED that wound up going off as Flight 9268 leveled off at its cruising altitude of 31,000 feet, or flight level 310...
And tragically this IED not only wound up causing the tail section of Flight 9268 to separate in flight, but it also caused the entire aircraft to essentially disintegrate in midair...
Which wound up killing all 224 passengers and crew on board...
And to this day, the bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268 is the worst incident involving the Airbus A320 Family, and also the deadliest to occur in Egypt...
And now viewers, we will be moving onto the second of the three aviation accidents of this chapter...And for this one, we will be a bit further back in time...In fact we will be actually going all the way back, to July 30, 1998...
And on this particular date Proteus Airlines Flight 706, which at the time was being operated by a Beechcraft 1900D...
And was operating from Lyon Satolas Airport in Lyon, France...to Lorient-Lann Bihoué Airport in
Lorient, France...
On this particular flight, were 2 pilots, and 12 passengers...
The captain of Flight 706 was 31 year old Jean-François Palette, who had a total of 10,000 total flight hours...
The first officer was 27 years old, and had only 300 hours on the Beechcraft 1900D...
Now viewers I am sure that you noticed that I did not say what the first officers name was, and that is because their name was never made public...
No seriously viewers you can go and take a look for yourselves, as their name was in fact left out...
But anyway as for the cause with regard to what wound up leading to the crash of Proteus Airlines Flight 706?...
Well about 90 minutes into the flight, a passenger came to to the cockpit of Flight 706, and wound up letting the pilots know of a ship known as the SS Norway being present in Quiberon Bay...
Which apparently is one of the more well known ships over in France...
And so obviously in this case viewers, the pilots decided to go and have a look at this beautiful ship...
Which meant briefly cancelling their present flight rules in order to go and take a quick 360 degree flyover of the Norway...
And yet while Proteus Flight 706 was descending, a Cessna 177 belonging to a local flying club was also on a local flight from a nearby airfield at Vannes for a local flight to Quiberon Bay...
Which at the time of this particular accident, was in fact within the same vicinity around the Norway as that of Proteus Flight 706...
And tragically this wound up leading to both aircraft colliding with one another in a mid air collision, with the propeller of the Cessna plowing right through the mid section of the cabin of the Beechcraft 1900...
Which resulted in both aircraft crashing into Quiberon Bay, with the crash killing all 15 people on board both planes...
And now viewers, we will be moving onto the third and final aviation accident of this chapter...And for this one, we will be a bit forward in time, to August 14, 2013...
And on this particular date, UPS Airlines Flight 1354. Which was a scheduled cargo flight from Louisville, Kentucky, to Birmingham, Alabama...
And on this particular flight, the aircraft being used to operate this flight was a Airbus A300F4-622R...
On board Flight 1354, were 2 pilots...
The captain of Flight 1354, was 58 year old Cerea Beal, Jr. Who prior to being hired by UPS, had been employed by TWA as a flight engineer and then first officer on the Boeing 727. He was then hired by UPS in October 1990 as a 727 flight engineer and then became a 727 first officer in August 1994. And twice, in 2000 and again in 2002, he began and then withdrew from training to upgrade to captain on the 757. He then transitioned to the A300 as a first officer in 2004 and then as a captain in 2009. And at the time of this accident, he had accumulated 6,406 flight hours at UPS, 3,265 of which were on the A300...
The first officer was 37 year old Shanda Fanning. Who had been hired by UPS in 2006 as a 727 flight engineer. She then became a first officer on the Boeing 757 in 2007, before transitioning to the 747 in 2009. She then began flying the A300 in June 2012. And at the time of this accident, she had accumulated 4,721 total flight hours, with 403 hours of which being on the A300...
And as for the cause of the crash of UPS Flight 1354?...
Well it was discovered that the first officer had possibly been fatigued during the flight. And this was because she did not wind up getting the required amount of rest beforehand...
Which along with fatigue playing a role in this particular accident, several errors on the part of the flight crew, were also contributing factors...
Which included not setting the flight computer correctly for the approach into their destination. As it turned out that there was a discontinuity on the flight computers destination coordinates from a nearby airport that had been programmed on a previous flight, that had not been cleared by the first officer. And this wound up causing a discrepancy, between where they were due to land, and where the aircraft thought it was going to...
And it also didn't help matters that the original runway that the crew was hoping to land on, was down for scheduled maintenance...
Which caused Flight 1354 to overshoot the glide path in which it was supposed to take down to the runway...
Which in turn caused the captain to set the planes autopilot over to its Vertical Speed setting. Which is a setting that is never supposed to be used during landing, as it winds up causing the aircraft to speed up its rate of descent, in order for it to try and get back onto the proper glide path...
And because the aircraft was high on its approach, this caused the aircraft to descend at 1500 feet per minute. Which is way too fast when they were as close as they were to the ground...
Which unfortunately as a result of all of these factors, this all wound up playing a role in causing UPS Flight 1354 to crash into a nearby hill just short of the airport where it was due to land. Which caused the aircraft to break apart and as well as skid across the ground of the hill, while also proceeding to burst into flames before coming to a stop. With the impact and fire killing both of the two pilots on board instantly...
And finally viewers, though I have said this in many of these same chapters before...
I will once again reiterate, that I don't mean any sort of disrespect, to those whose lives were lost by either this tragedy, or those like it...
As the only reason why I am mentioning them in these fanfics, is to help preserve the legacy of those who were injured or killed in these tragedies...
And also, to make sure that those who lost people in these tragedies, have some sort of another way to remember their loved ones...
And now viewers, this now marks the end of this non action packed filler chapter...But you can look forward to things getting right back into the action in the next chapter...And so viewers, from me, Angel Bluebell, Zachary, Catherine, and everyone else in The Four Aces Alliance...We all look forward to seeing you lot in the next chapter...So viewers, see you all there, okay?...*Keiko proceeds to go and currently say this, while Keiko is also proceeding to currently go and smile with both of her brown eyes closed as per usual. And this is also while Keiko currently has her head tilted to one side, in both her usual and also very cute looking manner as well, and as per usual*"