Reduced by the Scrap Man & Written Off 45900 Onwards


45910 9G-REM 62AF Ex N181SK Kuwait C/S Amsterdam 20/03/99,12/06/99 Ostend 13/8/99,18/9/99. (blue/white no titles) Ex.I-DIWV, N39307, N803MG, N181SK.

Written Off 16th October 1999. Kuwait AMS
Photo by Arjan Rooza Kuwait/Trans Continental Amsterdam March 1999
Air Nikon's - Desert Jets: Douglas PacificEastAs N39307 August 1985 MZJ Pacific East Air.

McDonnell Douglas DC- 8-63F N794AL 4(4) Air Transport International - ATI Toledo-Express APT; 3mls NW Date: 15.02.1992 Time: 03.26 EST Type: McDonnell Douglas DC- 8-63F Operator: Air Transport International - ATI Registration: N794AL C/n: 45923/383 Year built: Total airframe hrs: 70425 hours Cycles: 22980 cycles Crew: 3 fatalities / 3 on board Passengers: 1 fatalities / 1 on board Total: 4 fatalities / 4 on board Location: Toledo-Express APT; 3mls NW (USA) Phase: Final Approach Nature: Freight Flight: Seattle-Tacoma IAP, WA - Toledo-Express APT, OH (Flightnumber 805) Remarks: ATI Flight 805 departed from Seattle at 23.20h for a flight to Toledo.
The 1st officer was flying the ILS approach to Runway 7. For undetermined reasons, he failed to properly capture the ILS localizer and/or glideslope during the approach.
At 03.13h the captain decided to carry out a go-around. The aircraft was vectored onto a base leg and given a heading of 100deg to intercept the final approach course again.
With a 35kts crosswind (at 180deg) on the approach the 1st officer had trouble capturing the localizer/glideslope.
At 03.24, as the 1st officer was attempting to stabilize the approach, 3 GPWS glideslope warnings and sink rate warnings sounded.
The captain took over control at 03.24:17 and performed another missed approach maneuver.
He became spatially disoriented and inadvertently allowed an unusual attittude to develop with bankangles up to 80deg and pitch angles up to 25deg.
When in a nose-low and left bank angle attitude, control of the airplane was transferred back to the 1st officer who began levelling the wings and raising the nose of the airplane.
Impact with the ground occurred before the unusual attitude recovery was completed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the flightcrew to properly recognize or recover in a timely manner from the unusual aircraft attitude that resulted from the captain's apparent spatial disorientation, resulting from physiological factors and/or a failed attitude director." (NTSB/AAR-92/05) Source: NTSB/AAR-92/05 + S153; ASW 10.04.95(3-4) + ICAO Summary 2/93 (#43)

45912 N914BV 61F(AF) ex N8771, 6Y-JGH, N914CL, TF-VLW, C-GMXD, 5N-HAS.
Seen as C-GMXD at Manchester England 10/10/1987.
Scrapped Miami 07/1998 Air Jamaica By Pierre Langlois- still one of my favourites..

45933 53 CF-TIH Air Canada C-FTIH SCRAPPED withdrawn from use 22 March 1980 and stored at Montreal/Dorval still there 19 August 1980.
Scrapped 07/82

cftihPicture by Pierre Langlois at Montreal Dorval


45934 53 CF-TII Air Canada C-FTII SCRAPPED withdrawn from use Spring 1980 and stored at Montreal/Dorval still there 19 August 1980. Scrapped 07/82. C-FTIIPicture by Pierre Langlois at Montreal Dorval.

45942 N27UA 61F(AF) Cr. 7/08/1997 Ex.N8773, JA8058. N27UA By Jorg Tegen.
07.08.97 (12.34h EDT) McDonnell Douglas DC-8F N27UA Fine Air 4 fatalities / 4 occupants Location: Miami IAP, FL (USA) Nature: Cargo Phase:Initial Climb from: Miami IAP to: Santo Domingo (Dom.Rep.)
Flightnr.: 101 The DC-8 cargo aircraft lost control after take-off from Runway 27R and crashed.
The plane slid west across a road and into the International Airport Center at 28th Street and burst into flames. Weather 13.00 EDT: - cloudy - temp 91F - humidity 58% - wind N 6 - visibility 10 miles. Background: 79th DC-8 hull-loss 48th fatal DC-8 hull-loss 35th worst DC-8 hull-loss 1st Fine Air hull-loss Fine Air founded 1992 References: CNN: Four presumed dead in Miami cargo plane crash; MSNBC: Cargo jet crashes at Miami airport; Miami Herald; WSVN online; NBC6 WTVJ; Fine Air homepage

45947 N8079U
N8079U By Air Nikon Emery Flight 17 had just departed Sacramento-Mather Airport when the crew reported balance problems. A little later the aircraft was seen to crash into the Insurance Auto Auctions salvage yard, setting fire to 100-200 cars. Debris cut a swath about 250 yards wide and a quarter mile long. The plane's cargo included clothing, transmission fluid and a small amount of 9 grams fuses used to activate automobile air bags. Date: 16.02.2000 Time: 19.49h Type: McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71F Operator: Emery Worldwide Registration: N8079U C/n: 45947/341 Year built: 1968 Total airframe hrs: 84000 hours Cycles: 33200 cycles Crew: 3 fatalities / 3 on board Passengers: 0 fatalities / 0 on board Total: 3 fatalities / 3 on board Location: Sacramento, CA (USA) Phase: Initial Climb Nature: Freight Flight: Sacramento, CA - Dayton, OH (Flightnumber 17) (Source Aviation Safety Network)

46038 N8762 61 Capitol Ex OB-1407, OB-1452, F-GETM, C-FCMV, N811GB Haiti Trans Air.
CapitolCapitol DC-8 N8762 MZJ FEB84 Air NikonDOUGLAS JETS 2. Stored Miami.
Date: 12.03.1991 Time: 09.06 Type: McDonnell Douglas DC- 8-62H-AF Operator: Air Transport International - ATI Registration: N730PL C/n: 46161/552 Year built: Crew: 0 fatalities / 3 on board Passengers: 0 fatalities / 2 on board Total: 0 fatalities / 5 on board Location: New York-John F. Kennedy IAP, NY (USA) Phase: Take-off Nature: Freight Flight: New York-John F. Kennedy IAP, NY - Brussel APT (Flightnumber ) Remarks: The pilot felt that the force needed to pull the yoke aft was too great and aborted the takeoff.
The take-off was aborted and the aircraft overran, striking a sand berm and an ILS shack.
Both maingears and all four engines broke off.
The flight engineer had calculated the "V"-speeds and trim settings for a 242,000lbs takeoff weight, while the actual takeoff weight was 342,000lbs. Source: FI; ASW 10.04.95(3-4); ICAO Adrep Summary 4/94 (#96)

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