SCrjtrjrjj-j 5 j jf ne v/5 November 2015!!!£3.20 ■y) Cover picture: LX-VCM Boeing 747-8R7F (cn 61169/1522) is the 13th and second last 747-8F of the current Cargolux order and is seen at Prestwick on 30 September 2015 in “cutaway” special livery, celebrating the airline’s 45th anniversary.!! ! Lewis Grant 50 years 1965-2015 NO 430 Scottish Air News N995M Bombardier BD700-1A10 Global Express (cn 9322) on ‘Charlie’ with N526EE Gulfstream 4 (cn 1304) both Dunhill Golf Tournament visitors at Dundee on 29 September 2015.!! ! John Chalmers Qli "" ill'' ' ini'i^iV"1 wMjrii"1 f " BM — — , - ••■v.. „s, "• . •' '..if— ... aSraSw \ (VP-BRV) Boeing 737-528 cn 25227/2018, ex Yamal Ailines and Air France, has been positioned for use as a restaurant at a Go Kart Centre in Montrose Avenue Hillington Industrial Estate, Glasgow, and is seen soon after arrival from Kemble store on 14 October 2015.!!! Peter McCann - • i u o a • • « « « h „ smm L ?«* . i < < bB ZE708 BAe146 C.3 (cn 2211) is seen at Prestwick on 30 September 2015. Operated by 32 Sqn, the 5rvY aircraft was initially used in Afghanistan, and is• •• formerly OO-TAY of TNT Airways and one time Edinburgh regular.!!!!!!!!!! Lewis Grant ^ -- V amm Scottish Air News NO 431 scottish air news November 2015 Volume 50 MANAGING EDITOR Paul Wiggins E Mail : [email protected] Editorial Address : Grinsdale House, Grinsdale, Carlisle, CA5 6DS NEWS SECTION RESIDENTS SECTION Jim Fulton Alistair Ness E Mail : [email protected] E Mail : [email protected] MILITARY SECTION WEBSITE UPDATES AND QUERIES Vacancy, copy to Paul Wiggins meantime Scott Jamieson E Mail : [email protected] AIRFIELDS SCANNED SUB-EDITORS Aberdeen Ian Grierson Edinburgh Sandy Benzies / Alistair Ness Dundee / Perth Tim Gulson Glasgow Alan Reid Highlands/Islands Alan Nightingale Inverness Stephen Lane Prestwick Alan McKnight PHOTO SUBMISSIONS Please send photos via e-mail to Lorence Fizia , e-mail address is scanphotos1gmail.com Photos should be high quality JPEGs, uncompressed straight from the camera, and in colour. Please do not crop your photos in any way - we will do that. You can also send prints and slides to the editorial address above. 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MADE ON A • Mac ©2015 Scottish Air News!!!!! www.scottishairnews.co.uk NO 432 Scottish Air News aviation central Editorial - Paul Wiggins September proved to be another strong month for civil movements and the military made a better showing with an exercise in and around the Solway, then good participation in Joint Warrior 2015/2 with a naval live firing exercise involving helicopters and MRPA continuing as this is typed. - All produced first time visitors. Elsewhere the annual Dunhill Classic links golf tournament boosted exec jet and general aviation movements at Dundee and Edinburgh. We have now reached the actual SCAN 50th anniversary date - the editor was pleased to hear recently from the second editor, Ricky Clarkson (1969-70) who recalled the day when he went to Edinburgh to find out about what being Editor of SCAN involved, and returned to Glasgow with the duplicator and typewriter to start on the next issue!. Any younger readers may need further explanation of what these two devices were! Briefly -the 1960s production process involved the creation of a carbon stencil on a portable manual typewriter which was then wrapped around the pre-inked drum of the duplicator. This in turn was hand cranked multiple times to create back to back foolscap pages which were then collated in page order (usually by walking round a table as a group activity!), stapled, folded twice, enveloped, stamped and finally put into pillar boxes in the hope that the GPO would not weigh the contents! At about the same time a man landed on the moon! Correcting OC404 Falcon 2000 N510CT was actually photographed at Prestwick and not Edinburgh. Finally Alan McKnight who has been the Prestwick movements section sub editor for over 20 years has indicated that he would like to give this up as soon as a successor can be found. If you are interested and can help please contact the Editor. Many thanks to Alan for his sterling work over the years. Paul newsdesk !!Jim Fulton!!!!!!email : [email protected] ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS 2 January 2015 Stornoway Airport Saab 340B, G-LGNN Loganair At approximately 65 KIAS during an attempted takeoff in strong and gusty crosswind conditions, the aircraft swung to the left and departed the paved surface. The power levers were not selected to ground idle and the aircraft came to a halt with a collapsed nose landing gear, 250 m after leaving the paved surface. There were no injuries. The aircraft was subsequently declared uneconomic to repair. History of the flight The aircraft had been prepared for a Commercial Air Transport flight from Stornoway Airport to Glasgow Airport with 26 passengers and three crew on board; the commander was the Pilot Flying (PF) and the co- pilot was the Pilot Monitoring (PM). At 0825 hrs the aircraft was taxied towards Holding Point A1 for a departure from Runway 18. At 0832 hrs G-LGNL was cleared to enter the runway from Holding Point A1 and take off, and the ATC controller transmitted that the surface wind was from 270° at 27 kt. The commander commented to the co-pilot that the wind was across the runway and that there was no tailwind. As the aircraft taxied onto the runway, the co-pilot applied almost full right aileron input consistent with a cross- wind from the right. The commander advanced the power levers, and the engine torques increased symmetrically. The commander instructed the co-pilot to “set takeoff power”. Approximately one second after this call, the engine torques began to increase symmetrically, reaching 100% as the aircraft accelerated through 70 kt. During the early stages of the takeoff, left rudder was applied and the aircraft maintained an approximately constant heading. As the aircraft continued accelerating, the rudder was centralised, after which there was a small heading change to the left, then to the right, then a rapid heading change to the left causing the aircraft to deviate to the left of the runway centreline. The pilot applied right Scottish Air News NO 433 rudder but although the aircraft changed heading to the right in response, it did not alter the aircraft’s track significantly and the aircraft skidded to the left, departing the runway surface onto the grass at an IAS of 80 kt. The power levers remained at full power as the aircraft crossed a disused runway and back onto grass. During this period the nose landing gear collapsed before the aircraft came to a halt approximately 38 m left of the edge of the runway and 250 m from where it first left the paved surface. After the aircraft came to a halt, the captain saw that the propellers were still turning and so called into the cabin for the passengers to remain seated. One of the passengers shouted for someone to open the emergency exit but the cabin crew member instructed the passengers not to do so because the propellers were still turning. The co-pilot observed that the right propeller was still turning so operated the engine fire extinguishers to shut down both engines. When the passenger seated in the emergency exit row on the right of the aircraft saw that the right propeller had stopped, he decided to open the exit. He climbed out onto the wing and helped the remaining passengers leave the aircraft through the same exit, instructing them to slide off the rear of the wing onto the ground. The left propeller was still turning at the time the right over-wing exit was opened and the passenger seated in the left-side emergency exit row decided not to open the left exit. The crash alarm was activated by ATC at 0833 hrs. An aircraft accident was declared and the aerodrome emergency plan was put into action. When the Rescue and Fire Fighting Services (RFFS) arrived at the scene, passengers were still exiting the aircraft and the left propeller was still turning.