Legal Management

Midterms

Darren Cardenas
BSHM

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GLIDE/GLIDING
 Flight 236

https://www.youtube.
com/watch?
v=SpVRXv0a1q4

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What happened?
August 24,2001
Air Transat 236(Airbus/A330-249 2yrs service)
Toronto, Canada to Lisbon, Portugal
306 people(293 passengers, 13 crew)
Captain: Robert Piche
First Officer: Dirk DeJager
Air traffic control Directs the flight 60 mile south to avoid congestion
leakage of fuel
Open crossfeed valve
Engine 2 &1 flames out due to fuel starvation
Plane lost power, RAM air turbine opens
Only way is to glide through it
To reduce altitude and air speed "S" form and a 360 was performed
Nearest runway and makes emergency landing at LAJES airport 3
 OVERVIEW
Air Transat Flight 236

AIR
was a transatlantic
flight bound for Lisbon,
Portugal, from Toronto,

TRANSAT
Canada, that lost all
engine power while
flying over the Atlantic
Ocean on August 24,

236
2001. The Airbus A330
ran out of fuel due to a
fuel leak caused by
improper maintenance.
force to make an
emergency landing in
Azores portugal by just
gliding throught it.
Analysis

Obligation Contracts Torts

Debtor: Air Transat 236 Negligence:
Creditor: passengers Air Transat's of Transat maintenance
and the crew insurance personnel for using older
companies have engine parts
To safely and agreed to a $7.65 To Maintenance check
securely get the million settlement To General engine check
passengers to their with some of the Strict Liability:
destinations. passengers who Of Air Transat (can be
were onboard avoided if only there was
a general engine
chech/fuel maintenance)
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Thank you
for listening!
Occurrence Summary
On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight TSC236, an Airbus 330-243 aircraft, was on a scheduled flight
from Toronto Lester B Pearson Airport, Ontario (CYYZ), Canada to Lisbon Airport (LPPT), Portugal
with 13 crew and 293 passengers on board. At 05:33, the aircraft was at 4244N/2305W when the
crew noted a fuel imbalance. At 05:45, the crew initiated a diversion from the flight-planned route
for a landing at the Lajes Airport (LPLA), Terceira Island in the Azores. At 05:48, the crew advised
Santa Maria Oceanic Control that the flight was diverting due to a fuel shortage. At 06:13, the crew
notified air traffic control that the right engine (Rolls-Royce RB211 Trent 772B) had flamed out. At
06:26, when the aircraft was about 65 nautical miles from the Lajes airport and at an altitude of
about FL 345, the crew reported that the left engine had also flamed out and that a ditching at sea
was possible. Assisted by radar vectors from Lajes air traffic control, the crew carried out an
engines-out, visual approach, at night and in good visual weather conditions. The aircraft landed on
runway 33 at the Lajes Airport at 06:45. After the aircraft came to a stop, small fires started in the
area of the left main-gear wheels, but these fires were immediately extinguished by the crash
rescue response vehicles that were in position for the landing. The Captain ordered an emergency
evacuation; 16 passengers and 2 cabin-crew members received injuries during the emergency
evacuation. The aircraft suffered structural damage to the fuselage and to the main landing gear.
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