
South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight of the Boeing 707-300C Pretoria, registration ZS-EUW, on 20 April 1968 from Johannesburg to Heathrow via Windhoek, Las Palmas and Frankfurt.


Investigation

- Loss of situational awareness
- The crew had no visual reference in the dark, leading to spatial disorientation.
- The crew used a flap retraction sequence from the 707-B series which removed flaps in larger increments than desirable for that stage of the flight, leading to a loss of lift at 600 feet (180 m) above ground level.
- The drum-type altimeter fitted to the aircraft, was notoriously difficult for pilots to read;[6][7] the pilots may have misread their altitude by 1000 feet.
- After investigating this accident as well as a number of others that also involved controlled flight into terrain, the Federal Aviation Administration determined that a ground proximity warning system would have helped to avert some of the accidents. New regulations were therefore introduced from February 1972 requiring all turbojet aircraft to be fitted with the system.[8]
References
- ^ a b Aviation Safety Network (April 1968). "Boeing 707-344C Accident". Retrieved 16 January 2011.
- ^ a b Haine, Edgar A. (2000). Disaster in the Air. Associated University Presses. ISBN 0845347772.
- ^ a b c Report by the Board of Inquiry into the Accident to South African Airways Boeing 707-344C Aircraft ZS-EUW at Windhoek on 20 April 1968 (Report). Pretoria. November 1968.
- ^ Alhadeff, Vic (1985). A newspaper history of South Africa, Volume 1984. p. 112. ISBN 186806008X.
- ^ Aerospace Medicine (Aerospace Medical Association) 44 (5-8): 683. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qt85AQAAIAAJ.
- ^ Barlay, Stephen (1969). Aircrash detective: The Quest for Aviation Safety: An International Report. Hamilton.
- ^ "FSF CFIT Task Force Aircraft Equipment Team: Final Report". Federal Aviation Authority. 1997-01-23. p. 17.
- ^ Brian Power-Waters (2001). Safety last: The Dangers of Commercial Aviation : An Indictment by an Airline Pilot. iUniverse. p. 150. ISBN 0595186939.
I flew for SAA at the time. We were all horrified at the accident.
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