On August 14, 2013, the Airbus A300 flying the route crashed and burst into flames short of the runway on approach to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport. The crew were killed and the aircraft destroyed in what was an entirely avoidable crash. They were the only people aboard the aircraft. AAIS Case Reference: 13/2010 . The tragic accident happened 14th August 2013, when a UPS Airbus A300-600 crashed short of the runway at BHM in Birmingham Alabama. UPS Flight 1354 Recorders under examination in the NTSB Lab. Approach to Landing, UPS Flight 1354, Airbus A300-600, N155UP, Birmingham, Alabama, August 14, 2013. ""Member Robert Sumwalt holds third press briefing on UPS flight 1354 crash in Birmingham, Alabama.

The scheduled cargo flight was operating under the provisions of 14 A notice to airmen in effect at the time of the accident indicated that runway 06/24, the longest runway available at the airport and the one with a precision approach, would be closed from 0400 to 0500 CDT. Further, during the flight, information about variable ceilings at the airport was not provided to the flight crew.The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the flight crew's continuation of an unstabilized approach and their failure to monitor the aircraft's altitude during the approach, which led to an inadvertent descent below the minimum approach altitude and subsequently into terrain. "Member Robert Sumwalt holds final media brieifing on UPS flight 1354 crash in Birmingham, Alabama. Accident Investigation Sector . Both pilots were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The aircraft involved in the accident was a 10-year-old The aircraft crashed at about 04:47 local time (CDT, 09:47 UTC) while making a localizer non-precision approach to runway 18 at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport. NTSB/AAR-14/02. Abstract: This report discusses the August 14, 2013, accident involving an Airbus A300-600, N155UP, operating as UPS flight 1354, which crashed short of runway 18 during a localizer nonprecision United Arab Emirates. Both pilots were killed.At their third media briefing on August 16, 2013, the NTSB reported that the crew had briefed the approach to runway 18 and were cleared to land by To represent the country of manufacture, the French aviation accident investigation agency On February 20, 2014, the NTSB held a public hearing in connection with its investigation. General Civil Aviation Authority . The American National Transportation Safety Board released their final report on UPS flight 1354 this week. AIR ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION SECTOR Excerpts from the cockpit voice recorder were presented, in which both the captain and first officer discussed their lack of sufficient sleep prior to the flight.On September 9, 2014 the National Transportation Safety Board announced that the probable cause of the accident was that the aircrew had made an unstabilized approach into Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport during which they failed to adequately monitor their altitude. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Investigators conducting an initial examination of one of the recorders from UPS flight 1354 at the NTSB laboratory in Washington. The fuselage broke apart, with the nose coming to rest about 200 yards (180 m; 600 ft) away from the initial point of impact, and the rest of it about 80 yards (70 m; 240 ft) farther down towards the runway and about 1 kilometer (0.6 mi; 0.5 nmi) from its edge and catching fire. Because the flight's scheduled arrival time was 0451, only the shorter runway 18 with a nonprecision approach was available to the crew. United Arab Emirates . On August 14, 2013, about 0447 central daylight time (CDT), UPS flight 1354, an Airbus A300-600, N155UP, crashed short of runway 18 during a localizer nonprecision approach to runway 18 at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM), Birmingham, Alabama.