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	BirgenAir Accident - Press Release March 18 1996
		Official representation was included from Turkey (the state of registration of the airplane and the state of airline BirgenAir), and the Federal Republic of Germany (as observers), and also representatives of BirgenAir airline who are responsible for the operation (flightcrew and maintenance).
		The signals of the recorders were located on the 15th of February 1996 in the territorial waters of the Dominican Republic about 5 miles off the Coast of Puerto Plata at a depth of about 7200 feet.
		Immediately the government of the Dominican Republic, the United States, and Germany and the commercial companies of Boeing, Rolls Royce and BirgenAir devised a cost sharing plan to recover the recorders at an estimated cost of $1.4 million.
	www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de /publications/Incidents/DOCS/ComAndRep/PuertoPlata/18-3-birgenair.html (724 words)

	Hope fades for jet's 189 passengers
		The German tour operator said the Dominican airline, Alas Transporte de Internacional, was responsible, having leased the aircraft from a Turkish company, Birgenair.
		Bound for Frankfurt and Berlin, the Birgenair plane was chosen at the last minute to replace a Boeing 767 owned by Alas which developed mechanical trouble, Dominican officials said.
		Birgenair's owner, Gulperi Peri, told The Associated Press that Alas had asked Birgenair to lease the plane because another plane, a 767, had technical trouble.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/02/08/crash.html (939 words)

	MC DONNELL - DOUGLAS DC - 10 - BIRGENAIR
		This infamous Turkish charter carrier is better known for death of over 200 tourists than for having operated a DC-10.
		Birgenair operated charter flights from Western Europe to several Turkish holiday destinations until 1996.
		Shortly after their infamous accident of their only 757 (which was operated for the Dominican carrier Alas Nacionales) near Puerto Plata, Birgenair ceased all operations.
	www.taxiways.de /DC-10/D10operator/Birgenair.html (140 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Data from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and the flight data recorder (FDR) indicated that the airspeed displayed to the pilot in command (PIC) during takeoff was incorrect and that the PIC was aware of the problem.
		POI's of 14 CFR part 121 air carriers operating Boeing 757/767 airplanes shall make certain that their assigned operators' flight manuals include appropriate emergency procedures for identification and corrective actions to be taken when erroneous airspeed indications are observed or suspected.
		POI's shall also inform these air carriers of the circumstances of the Birgenair accident and reemphasize the importance of monitoring airspeed indications for malfunctions during the takeoff.
	www.faa.gov /library/manuals/examiners_inspectors/8400/fsat/media/FSAT9615.txt (326 words)

	Aviation Today - Top Story
		In 1996, a Birgenair B757 crashed 2.5 minutes after takeoff from the Dominican Republic.
		Insect debris in the pitot tube feeding the captain’s airspeed indicator was suspected.
		Investigators found the static ports had been taped over as ground crews waxed the plane’s aluminum exterior (the static port provides the reference, if you will, to the dynamic pressure measured by the pitot).
	www.aviationtoday.com /sia/19991001.htm (1196 words)

	Pitot-static system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The system allows a pilot to know an aircraft's airspeed, Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend.
		06 February 1996 - Birgenair flight 301 crashes shortly after takeoff due to the static ports being blocked and thus causing the system to provide incorrect altitude and airspeed data
		This page was last modified 04:10, 23 July 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitot-static_system (119 words)

	Air Safety Online: Boeing 757
		Colombian civil aviation authorities report that at the time of the accident, all navigational beacons were fully serviceable and that the aircraft voice and data recorders did not indicate any aircraft problems.
		Alas Nacionales, a Dominican Republic airline, charted the 757 from Birgenair, a Turkish owned airline, for the flight to Germany.
		At the time, all airlines from the Dominican Republic were not allowed by the U.S. government to fly to the U.S. because of sanctions imposed by the FAA Foreign Assessment Program.
	www.airguideonline.com /airsafety_757.htm (475 words)

	373-A-1991 -- Non-scheduled international service - Birgenair Charter Group Inc.
		APPLICATION by Birgenair Charter Group Inc. of Istanbul, Turkey, for a licence to operate a Class 9-4R Restricted Charter non-scheduled international service to transport passengers and goods between Canada and any other country using fixed wing aircraft in Group G. File No. M4895/B155-5-1
		Birgenair Charter Group Inc. (hereinafter the applicant) has applied to the National Transportation Agency pursuant to subsection 94(1) of the National Transportation Act, 1987, R.S.C., 1985, c.
		Following its consideration of the application and in light of the willingness of the Turkish Aeronautical Authority to give favourable consideration to Canadian air carriers applying to Turkey for similar authority, the Agency finds it in the public interest to issue to Birgenair Charter Group Inc. a non-scheduled international licence.
	www.cta-otc.gc.ca /rulings-decisions/decisions/1991/A/373-A-1991_e.html (338 words)

	Significant Accomplishments as a Result of Foreign Investigations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Birgenair accident is particularly noteworthy because it was the first loss of the popular B757, and there was concern for the airworthiness of the fleet.
		Through a multinational effort, the flight recorders were retrieved from the seabed off the Dominican Republic, a depth of over 7000 feet, and the accident could be understood,--crew confusion over flight instrument readings.
		In both the Lauda and Birgenair accidents, the Safety Board was able to get Safety Recommendations out to the industry in a timely manner-thus protecting the public from possible recurrence.
	www.ntsb.gov /speeches/IASPI_72/tsld011.htm (457 words)

	Birgenair -- NTSB Operating-Manual Recommendations
		NTSB Recommendations on the B757/767 Operating Manual consequent upon the Birgenair Accident
		Flight International, 12-18 June, p8 reports on changes recommended by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has been a `full partner' with the Dominican Republic in the investigation of the 6 Feb 1996 Birgenair B757 accident.
		A blocked pitot is believed to have cause the erroneous airspeed readings on the captain's primary airspeed indicator.
	www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de /cms/publications/Incidents/DOCS/ComAndRep/PuertoPlata/manual-birgenair.html (212 words)

	Reise, Reise (Rammstein) : Hidden noise
		Actually, the noise is taken from the flight recorder from a Birgenair-Boeing 757, which 6th February 1996 crashed into the sea outside the Dominican Republic.
		The plane was supposed to be a 767 from the local charter company Alas, but due to the low amount of travelers, Birgenair's 757 was chosen.
		The plane set off from the airport in the city of Puerto Plata, a city located north in the country, and was headed for Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany, and it reached a height of 7000 feet before something went wrong (apparently something with the speedometer), and the plane crashed into the sea.
	www.eeggs.com /items/43084.html (669 words)

	Airline whose rented plane crashed resumes flying (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was carrying mostly German tourists returning from Caribbean holidays.
		Alas had leased the Boeing 757 from Birgenair, a Turkish company that has said it was responsible for all Alas operations.
		The Dominican Association of Air Traffic Controllers said Saturday it was in no way to blame for the Feb. 6 crash.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/02/18/dominican.html (264 words)

	Search continues for Caribbean jet crash victims: 2/8/96
		It reached an altitude of 7,000 feet and appeared on radar screens to veer right, as if turning back, before going down, Dominican officials said.
		The civil aviation director said the pilot radioed he was returning to Puerto Plata, and the last message from the crew was "Stand by." Bound for Frankfurt and Berlin, the Birgenair plane was chosen at the last minute to replace a Boeing 767 owned by Alas which developed mechanical trouble, Dominican officials said.
		An Alas employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 767 had problems with its landing gear.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/02-96/02-08-96/4crashfo.htm (526 words)

	The AirSafe Journal - Issue 5
		local time, a Birgenair 757-200, a charter from Puerto Plata to Frankfurt, Germany with a scheduled refueling stop in Canada, crashed shortly after takeoff.
		The NTSB recommended that the FAA issue an airworthiness directive that would revise the 757 and 767 flight manual to notify pilots that simultaneous activation of the "MACH/SPD TRIM" and "RUDDER RATIO" advisories,which occurred during the Birgenair flight), is an indication of airspeed discrepancy.
		Add Caution Message: Require that the crew alerting systems of the 757 and 767 models be modified to include a "caution" when an erroneous airspeed indication is detected.
	www.airsafe.com /journal/issue5.htm (991 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This was the first B757 fatal accident in a decade and a half of service, and I believe the first jet accident for AA in about the same length of time.
		On February 6, 1996, a B757 of Birgenair, registration TC-GEN, crashed into the ocean off Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, shortly after takeoff.
		The US National Transportation Safety Board is `participating fully' in each of the investigations.
	archive.cpsr.net /cpsr/lists/rre/HCI_and_airplane_crashes (1611 words)

	FLUG REVUE May 1997: German charter airlines rated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is difficult to find something positive in the crash of an aircraft with 189 casualties.
		The only positive outcome of the Birgenair crash on February 6 of last year is that the German public has been questioning the reputation and origin of airlines more critically since then.
		Fourteen months after the catastrophic crash in the Caribbean the charter sky over Germany is not the same any more.
	www.flug-revue.rotor.com /FRheft/FRH9705/FR9705m.htm (632 words)

	CNN - Plane-wreck search called off - Feb. 8, 1996
		The crew was comprised of 11 Turks and two Dominicans.
		The plane was leased shortly before takeoff from the Turkish Birgenair company after Alas' own Boeing 767 developed mechanical trouble, Birgenair said.
		Manuel Souffrount, the president of the Accident Investigation Commission in the Dominican Republic, said there was no indication from the pilot that the plane was in trouble before it went down.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/9602/plane_crash/02-08/11am (520 words)

	Figurations and Aviation Disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Illustrations from the 1996 Crash of a Birgenair Charter Flight
		However, the complex, elongated nature of interdependencies within these figurations make uncertain any "objective" identification of the correlates of safety.
		Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1997.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~rstallin/Birgnair.html (78 words)

	757 767 African Adventure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I had been assigned to give a PC to a couple of BirgenAir crews on their way to begin a 767 wet-lease contract with Air Gabon.
		I knew these crews from having provided their initial transition training when they were working a contract in Puerto Plata, Domican Republic.
		I couldn't say no. I ended up with 10 days to get my visa and shots, a Leave of Absence, say my goodbyes, and beat feet over to Gabon for my 1st duty flight on 8 Dec, 96.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/t_gooch/Adventures/ap1.html (137 words)

	Dominican Republic News & Travel Information Service
		El Caribe reports on flight AWL 301, which crashed on midnight on 6 February 1996 with 189 persons on board only four minutes after take-off from Gregorio Luperon airport in Puerto Plata en route to Frankfurt.
		The aircraft, which fell just 25 kilometers northeast of Cabarete, was chartered from Turkish company Birgenair by Dominican company Alas Nacionales to perform a charter flight.
		There were 176 passengers on board; 164 were German tourists and the rest were Polish.
	www.dr1.com /news/articles/06020711.html (375 words)

	List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 8 - An African Air Antonov 32 crashed into a busy street market after failing to takeoff in Kinshasa, Zaire killing an estimated 350 people.
		February 6 – Birgenair Flight 301 A malfunction with the pilot's air speed indicator, and the crew's improper handling of the stick shaker's stall warning, caused the plane to crash into the ocean, killing all 13 crew members and 176 passengers.
		February 29 – Faucett Flight 251, a Boeing 737, crashed while attempting to land at Arequipa, Peru.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_airliners_grouped_by_year (7214 words)

	B757
		Nationair filed for bankruptcy and deased operations 01/04/1993.
		at Frankfurt in Birgenair c/s and Caribbean Airways titles.
		at Hamburg in Birgenair c/s and Caribbean Airways titles.
	www.b757.info /CN/22206.htm (101 words)

	Turkish Press Review 96-06-14
		A World Bank delegation held talks with Turkish officials and discussed construction of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline during their contacts in Ankara last week.
		According to a report by the US Department of Air Safety, the Turkish pilots flying a Boeing passenger plane on lease to the Turkish Birgenair air company which crashed into the sea with the loss of 189 lives, have been shown to be blameless.
		Instead, the report actually blames Boeing for failing to provide proper warning systems in the pilot's cabin and flight deck.
	www.hri.org /news/turkey/trkpr/1996/96-06-14.trkpr.html (2099 words)

	Luchtzak Aviation - European Parliament approved Name-and-Shame rule
		Any EU state that bans an airline notifies the EC, which can extend the ban throughout the EU.
		The rule originated from the Birgenair B757 crash at the Dominican Republic but was pushed by the January Flash Air B733 crash at Egypt.
		Meanwhile, Luxor Air (Egypt) remains banned from French airspace and Air Memphis (Egypt) remains banned from Belgian Airspace following the 2 April incident at Cairo, in which the right main gear tyres of its B707 SU-AVZ burst and the aircraft veered off the runway.
	www.luchtzak.be /article4158.html (393 words)

	Welcome at Daniels Scenery Homepage - dazeflight online! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I can still remember very well the first "real" flight in my life.
		The destination was Antalya and the plane was from Birgenair, the Airline which became famous after the accident killing about 220 people in the Dominicanic Republic.
		I was looking forward to the nice and beautiful stewardesses, the great meal and of course to the first "On Air" feeling.
	www.dazeflight.de /commercial/turkey.htm (835 words)

	crm-devel mailing list for November, 1996: Birgenair Report/Flight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		crm-devel mailing list for November, 1996: Birgenair Report/Flight
		well to read the official report on the Birgenair Boeing 757
		Question: Does anyone on the list know how to get a copy of the report?
	www.crm-devel.org /maillist/archive/nov_96/0074.html (112 words)

	1996-A-219 -- Int'l (non-scheduled service) licence cancellation - Birgenair Charter Group Inc.
		1996-A-219 -- Int'l (non-scheduled service) licence cancellation - Birgenair Charter Group Inc.
		IN THE MATTER OF the operation of a Class 9-4R Restricted Charter non-scheduled international service by Birgenair Charter Group Inc. - Licence No. 910165.
		Licence No. 910165 is hereby cancelled pursuant to subsection 97(2) of the NTA, 1987.
	www.cta-otc.gc.ca /rulings-decisions/orders/1996/A/1996-A-219_e.html (148 words)

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