Aircraft accident report : ground spoiler activation in flight/hard landing Valujet Airlines Flight 558, Douglas DC-9-32, N922VV Nashville, Tennessee, January 7, 1996

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. National Transportation Safety Board
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air transportation crashes
  • Crash reports
  • Douglas DC-9-32
  • Flight 558
  • Nashville International Airport
  • ValuJet Airlines
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1403507
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. National Transportation Safety Board
• Abstract:
  Adopted: December 11,1996. Notation 6781. This report explains the ground spoiler activation in flight and subsequent hard landing of ValuJet Airlines flight 558, N922VV, a Douglas DC-9-32 at Nashville International Airport, Nashville, Tennessee. The safety issues discussed in the report include the adequacy of ValuJet's operations and maintenance manuals, specifically winter operations nosegear shock strut servicing procedures; the adequacy of ValuJet's pilot training/crew resource management training programs; flightcrew actions/decisionmaking; the role of communications (flightcrew/flight attendants/operations/dispatch/air traffic control); ValuJet's flightcrew pay schedule; Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversight of ValuJet; and the adequacy of cockpit voice recorder (CVR) duration and procedures. Safety recommendations concerning these issues were made to the FAA and ValuJet Airlines.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12905/dot_12905_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 10.03 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ff7d12dc7563b2933930ae5815f37d4bdc1aaf252b0fbab2a610bbf26cd91e4d0f2909e490e6db0d299c3b7fc1b84d9054b2ff036c19954748132c20d4201cf0