Incident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 11 FEB 1991 |
| Type: | Airbus A310-304 |
| Operator: | Interflug |
| Registration: | D-AOAC |
| C/n / msn: | 503 |
| First flight: | 1989-06-29 (1 year 8 months) |
| Engines: | 2 General Electric CF6-80C2A2 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Unknown |
| Location: | near MoskvaMoskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) (Russia) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE), Russia |
Interflug Airbus A.310 D-AOAC was making an automatic ILS approach to Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) when controllers instructed the flight to go around. At that moment the aircraft was descending through 1550 feet agl. The crew reprogrammed their Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS) started resisting the autopilot which was commanding the trimmable horizon stabilizer opposite the elevator commands put in by the captain. At an altitude of some 1250 feet agl, the nose pitched up in a high power climb. Climbing through 1500 feet, the nose pitched up to 88deg and the speed decayed to just 30 knots IAS. At 4300 feet the plane stalled. The continuing control conflict caused the plane to climb violently and stall another three times - in the last climb reaching 11,755 feet. At 8700 feet the crew were finally able to control the aircraft. A safe landing at Sheremetyevo Airport was made.
Sources:
» Air Disaster Vol. 3 (p.154-155)
» Air Safety Week 10.10.1994 (p. 5)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
