A crew member in Qingdao died unexpectedly while on duty. Can such accidents be avoided?

65438+1On October 26th, Qingdao Airlines announced in official website that on the morning of 24th, a crew member of the company had an accident while carrying out the task of towing an overhead plane off the maintenance apron at Jiaodong Airport, and the on-site personnel immediately called for first aid and called the police, but the emergency rescue failed, and this colleague died unfortunately.

In this regard, the company expressed deep condolences. After the incident, Qingdao Airlines immediately started the emergency mechanism, immediately reported to the relevant departments, and set up a special working group. At present, the company is fully caring for family members and actively handling the aftermath. The civil aviation regulatory authorities are investigating this incident.

Interface News obtained the aviation safety notice issued by an aircraft maintenance company through its crew, with the theme of "Notice on risk warning of towing aircraft". The document was issued by the East China Regional Administration of Civil Aviation, with the signing date of 65438+2022124 October. The reporter confirmed that this notice was issued in response to the Qingdao aviation maintenance incident.

According to the document, recently, in the process of pushing and towing an aircraft, due to the accidental drop of the work card, the aircraft commander leaned over to pick up the work card, and the wing guard did not carry the audible and visual alarm reminder device, which failed to inform the trailer driver to stop towing in time, resulting in the aircraft commander being accidentally crushed by the main wheel of the aircraft.

East China Bureau analyzed and summarized this typical case, issued relevant risk warnings, and drew lessons from all units.

All units shall strictly follow MD-MAT-FS-002 Management Specification for Civil Aviation Maintenance Work Style (Civil Aviation Regulation [2020] 19? No.) and "Notice on Taking Effective Measures to Avoid Rubbing Events in the Process of Aircraft Towing and Pushing" (bureau invention? Electricity [2020] 1444? ) requirements, the correct equipment and use of sound and light alarm reminder equipment or similar facilities.

If the work of pushing and towing aircraft involves the cooperation of different units, a cooperation liaison system should be formulated during the process of pushing and towing aircraft, the responsible maintenance personnel should be defined, and the equipment and use of acousto-optic alarm devices should be implemented to ensure that relevant personnel can call for reminders and confirm responses at any time during the towing process of aircraft.

In addition, all units shall, according to the Notice on Strengthening Aircraft Service (East China Bureau Invented Electricity [202 1] 533? Five core risks of aviation aircraft service. Carefully sort out the hazards and corresponding control measures, earnestly implement the basic safety requirements of aircraft service, draw inferences from others, strengthen the case teaching of unsafe incidents and emergency plan drills, and enhance the risk awareness and emergency handling ability of service personnel.

Finally, the supervision bureaus/CMOs should strengthen the supervision of aircraft towing of service support units in their jurisdictions to ensure that the information communication mechanism, personnel training, equipment and use of relevant units meet the requirements.

The maintenance personnel of the maintenance company who provided this document told the interface journalist that the accident occurred in the maintenance of Qingdao Airlines, and the situation was complicated, which was caused by communication and operation.

He explained that the tractor of Qingdao Airlines was towing the plane. "The connection position between the tractor and the plane is always fixed. The reason why there is a difference between pushing and towing is because the tractor cab can rotate back and forth, including pushing the plane back and forth and towing the plane back and forth. "

He said that the biggest problem with towing a plane is that the rear view is not good and the situation behind the car body is unclear. On the other hand, according to the regulations, when towing an aircraft, relevant personnel shall not appear near the fuselage of the aircraft such as the engine and the main take-off and landing. At the time of the incident, the crew of Qingdao Airlines stood on the main wheel of the plane. "From the perspective of operating specifications, this situation generally does not occur."

According to the Ming Chuan telegram of the East China Regional Administration of Civil Aviation, the captain of Qingdao Airlines plane appeared under the main wheel of the plane because the work order was accidentally dropped, and he bent over to pick it up. The wing supervisor failed to inform the trailer driver to stop towing in time without carrying the acousto-optic alarm reminder device, which led to the accident that the aircraft commander was crushed by the main wheel of the aircraft.

According to CCTV news, the number of the aircraft involved is B-30FG, and the model is Airbus A320neo. The last civil aviation flight was carried out on June 23, 65438. After completing the flight from Changchun to Qingdao at 23: 34 that day, it landed at Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport for maintenance.

65438+1On the morning of October 24th, the B-30FG aircraft was towed to another aircraft seat under the escort of the crew after completing the maintenance work in the designated aircraft seat. During the transfer of the plane, an unsafe accident occurred.

65438+1On October 26th, the B-30FG aircraft was put into the flight operation of Qingdao Airlines again, and a flight from Qingdao was carried out.