The Angry Pilot Who Crashed His Plane | Armavia Flight 967

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This is the story of Armavia flight 967, on the 3rd of may 2006, Armavia flight 967 was on its way from Yerevan, Armenia to Sochi in russia with 113 people on board. At 4:55 pm the captain went over the weather predictions for their destination airport of sochi. The weather was within limits and he decided that it was safe to continue.At 8:39 pm the engines were started and by 8:47 pm the plane took off from yerevan bound for sochi.
As the plane climbed the pilots got a bit of bad news the controller at the Tbilisi regional center gave them the weather for sochi. It wasn't good. The weather at Sochi was below minima and if the weather didn't improve they wouldn't be able to land but The plane climbed and by 9:07 pm the plane was at 34,000 feet, its cruising altitude.

While still under the control of tbilisi regional control the captain decided to contact sochi approach control to get a first hand reading of the weather there. The controller at sochi had bad news, the cloud ceiling for runway 06 was 170 meters and visibility was 2KM that is 550 feet by 6500 feet respectively. It was pretty much the same thing for runway 02. The pilots enquired if the visibility would improve to 2500 meters in about an hour, if the weather improved in an hour then they'd be able to hold for a bit and then land. The controller went to check the weather forecasts, The 2 hour forecast said that visibility would drop to 1500 meters or 4900 feet. Instead of getting better the weather was expected to get worse. Their hands were tied the crew decided to turn back to yerevan. As they started to make the trip back to yerevan they tried the weather at sochi one more time, this time the pilots told the controllers at sochi that they had deputies on board, I guess in this context deputies are very important people, VIPs if you will, here's the thing though the crew lied there were no deputies on board this was just a ploy to get a favorable weather report from the Sochi controller. Soon the sochi controller got back to them, the weather had improved, the controller said “Armavia 967, visibility 3600, cloud ceiling 170, for 30 minutes. The weather is around the limit, but OK so far”. The weather was okay, for now, there was no guarantee that it would hold and with that they turned back to sochi.

As they flew they went over the go around briefing, just a discussion on what they'd do if they had to go around. But things were starting to unravel in the cockpit, the plane was being flown by the autopilot and the captain couldn't get the plane to descend as fast as he wanted, they thought that there was something wrong with the autopilot. So they disengaged autopilot two and switched to autopilot one.

It was 10 pm and the plane was in contact with the Sochi approach. The weather was good, visibility was at 4000 meters or 13,000 feet. But the controllers noticed that flight 967 was a bit too high, they told the crew quote “If able, expedite descent or you’ll overshoot the final turn.”end quote, they were a bit too high, nothing that can't be fixed. By 10:03 pm the plane was passing through 12000 feet and the controller cleared them down to 2000 feet as they made the turn to final.

As the autopilot flew the plane they went about their approach checklist, but they got some bad news, the visibility was good but the clouds were too low, the cloud base was at 160 meters or 500 feet, this crew were asked to not descend below 2000 feet. This pissed the pilots off, as they went through the checklist they hurled insults at the controller, for example, the captain said

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