ACR LTT INCURRED ICING ON FINAL APCH AND ON ROLLOUT BOTH ENGINES FLAMED OUT.
Synopsis
ACR LTT INCURRED ICING ON FINAL APCH AND ON ROLLOUT BOTH ENGINES FLAMED OUT.
Narrative
RPTED FOR DUTY AT XA30 PER OPERATIONS. FLTS WERE UNUSUAL THIS DAY BECAUSE OF SNOW STORM IN ATL PREVIOUS DAY. ACFT WAS DEICED AND AVAILABLE FOR BOARDING AT XH30. ENGS STARTED AND BLOCKOUT RECORDED AT XH45. DURING TAXI ON RWYS; NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING PAX IN SEATS 1B AND 1C HAD TO BE TOLD TO SIT DOWN AND FASTEN SEATBELTS. TKOF AT XL05 AND ENRTE FLT SEGMENTS WERE NORMAL. APCH TO ALB. F/O WAS FLYING. CAPT CONTACTED ALB RADIO FOR WX AS FOLLOWS: 500' OVCST; 3 MI VIS IN FOG; WINDS CALM; ALTIMETER 3020' AND TEMP 33 DEGS; DEW POINT 32 DEGS. NOTED OAT AT +8 DEGS C. COMPLETED IN-RANGE CHKLIST NORMALLY AND BRIEFED THE ALB VOR 16 APCH. FOLLOWING THE BRIEFING; CAPT AND F/O DISCUSSED ALERTNESS CONDITIONS--BEING TIRED AND IN THE ACFT AND ON DUTY FOR UNUSUALLY EXTENDED PERIODS--MENTAL NOTES WERE MADE TO XCHK INSTRUMENTS AND EACH OTHER AND TO TALK TO ONE ANOTHER THROUGHOUT THE APCH. EXECUTED VOR 16 APCH TO MISSED APCH POINT AND MISSED. SUBSEQUENTLY CLRD DIR PUTNY AND ILS RWY 4 APCH TO ALB. FLEW PROC TURN AS DEPICTED ABOVE THE CLOUD LAYER. OAT STILL NOTED TO BE GREATER THAT 7 DEGS C. ENTERED CLOUD LAYER INSIDE FINAL APCH FIX AT 1800'. CONTINUED APCH NORMALLY UNTIL BRAKING OUT AT 600'. DURING FINAL APCH SEGMENT F/O WAS FLYING APCH AND CAPT CONTINUED TO MONITOR FLT INSTRUMENTS AND MAKE COCKPIT AND ATC CALLS. SOMEWHERE BTWN OUTER AND MIDDLE MARKER; CAPT NOTED NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING PAX FROM SEAT 1C STANDING UP; SEATBELT UNFASTENED; LEANING INTO COCKPIT DOORWAY TO OBSERVE. CAPT STRONGLY ADVISED PAX TO SIT DOWN; WHILE GESTURING TO FASTEN SEATBELT. NO ICE BUILDUP WAS NOTED BTWN MARKERS AND F/O RPTED NO ADVERSE FEEL IN CTL YOKE AND NO ADVERSE ENG OPERATION. APPROX XM15 APCH WAS COMPLETED TO NORMAL LNDG ON RWY 4 AT ALB. UPON ROLLOUT; BOTH ENGS FAILED WITHIN 1 SEC OF ONE ANOTHER. ACFT WAS STOPPED ON RWY. CAPT INFORMED ALB TWR OF PWR LOSS WHILE F/O EVAC'D PAX THROUGH THE AFT ENTRY DOOR. CAPT CONTACTED COMPANY REQUESTING PAX TRANSPORT TO TERMINAL AND EQUIP TO TOW ACFT TO GATE. THROUGHOUT THE FLT; ICING DESCRIPTIONS OF ANY KIND WERE NOT RPTED BY ALB RADIO; JACKSONVILLE CENTER; ALB APCH CTL; ALB TWR OR PLT RPTS. HEAVY GLAZE ICE WAS NOTED ON ACFT WINGS; LNDG GEAR; SPINNERS AND BELLY ANTENNAS. NO ICE WAS NOTED ON PROP BLADES OR ON CENTER WINDSCREEN EITHER DURING APCH OR AFTER LNDG. FLT POSTSCRIPT: AFTER A FEW DAYS REFLECTION ON THE FLT; THE CAPT WOULD MAKE THESE CHANGES: INQUIRE OF ALB RADIO AND ALB APCH OF RPTED OR POSSIBLE ICING CONDITIONS IN APCH AREA; INITIALLY SELECT THE ILS APCH TO RWY 4 TO MAXIMIZE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO LAND; USE THE ACFT ENG ANTI-ICE AND IGNITION AND PROP HEAT LONG CYCLE TO LESSEN THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF ICING; AND; CLOSE THE COCKPIT DOOR DURING APCH TO PREVENT ANY PAX DISTRS DURING CRITICAL PHASES OF FLT.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.