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Nine people have died onboard an airplane carrying skydivers that crashed as the plane was taking-off in Örebro, Sweden

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    mycketforvirrad
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    Almost two years to the date since an eerily similar tragedy to the north, in Umeå. Nine people have died in Sweden after a plane taking them up on a parachute jump crashed close to Umeå

    Almost two years to the date since an eerily similar tragedy to the north, in Umeå.

    Nine people have died in Sweden after a plane taking them up on a parachute jump crashed close to Umeå

    Nine people have died in Sweden after a plane taking them up on a parachute jump crashed into an island close to the northern city of Umeå.
    The plane took off from Umeå airport at just after 1.30pm on Sunday, and sent out an alarm at 2.12pm, shortly before it crashed, nose-first, into the ground.

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      Wikipedia quotes from a crash report about the previous accident: That sounds surprisingly lax to me; I thought every pilot was trained to understand the importance of weight and balance? Here is...

      Wikipedia quotes from a crash report about the previous accident:

      The final report was issued on 9 September, 2020.[15] This report concluded that, approximately 30 seconds before the parachutists were due to jump, the aircraft stalled and subsequently entered cloud in a rapid and accelerating descent. Lack of pilot experience and loss of visual cues precluded a subsequent recovery to controlled flight. Excessive loads experienced during the uncontrolled descent led to the break-up of the aircraft.

      SHK calculated that the aircraft was probably overweight at takeoff with a centre of gravity (cg) aft of the permitted limit and noted that normal preparations for a parachuting run would have been expected to cause the cg to shift further aft at a time coincident with the stall. The resultant loss of longitudinal stability, combined with already low and decreasing airspeed at a time of high pilot workload probably led to the departure from controlled flight.

      The report observed that:

      • No mass and balance calculations had been carried out prior to the accident flight, and that parachuting operators in Sweden had no means of performing such calculations routinely.
      • Although legally qualified to operate the flight, the pilot was inexperienced in parachuting operations and that there was no formal training mechanism available for the development and qualification of jump pilots
      • Parachutists were generally unaware of the importance of respecting mass and balance limits and the accident aircraft carried no markings or notices to enable them to comply with these limits.

      That sounds surprisingly lax to me; I thought every pilot was trained to understand the importance of weight and balance? Here is an FAA document about what pilots should do for skydive operations.

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