At 12:36, Aska transferred control of the aircraft to Blakely, telling him that the electronic flight instrument (EFI) switch on his side had malfunctioned. Accident Ītlas Air 3591 departed Miami at 10:33 CST (11:33 EST), with Aska as the pilot flying and Blakely monitoring the controls. : 5 īoth pilots had previous experience in landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport and they flew together on the previous day, operating a night-time flight from California to Miami. Aska had previously been an Embraer E175 first officer with Mesa Airlines (and served with five other airlines prior to that) and also had experience on Embraer's EMB 120 Brasilia and ERJ aircraft families. He had logged 5,073 flight hours, with 520 of them on the 767. : 3–4Īska joined Atlas Air on July 3, 2017, and received his type rating on the Boeing 767 two months later. : 5 Blakely logged a total of 11,172 flight hours, including 1,252 hours on the Boeing 767. He had also been a Beechcraft 1900 first officer for CommutAir, and a flight instructor for FlightSafety International.
Before being hired by Atlas Air, Blakely had previously been an Embraer ERJ-145 captain for ExpressJet. īlakely joined Atlas Air in 2015 and became a Boeing 767 captain in 2018. There were three people on board the aircraft: Captain Ricky Blakely of Indiana (60), first officer Conrad Jules Aska of Cedar Grove, Antigua (44), and Mesa Airlines captain Sean Archuleta of Houston (36 a jumpseater aboard the flight), who was in his final week of employment at Mesa Airlines and was traveling to work before beginning new-hire pilot training with United Airlines scheduled for the following week. The aircraft had accumulated more than 91,000 hours over 23,300 flights and was powered by two GE CF6-80 turbofan engines. The name, painted on the aircraft just aft of the cockpit windows, was a near homonym of "customer obsession," an Amazon leadership principle. In August 2018, Amazon named two aircraft in its fleet, including N1217A as CustomAir Obsession. It was converted into a freighter in April 2017, and placed into service for Amazon Prime Air by Atlas Air. In 1997, it was transferred to LAN Airlines and flew for 19 years before being stored in January 2016. It was originally ordered by Canadian Airlines, but first placed into service by China Southern Airlines through GPA, an aircraft leasing company. The Boeing 767-375ER( BCF) ( MSN 25865/430) aircraft was registered N1217A and was nearly 27 years old at the time of the accident, having been built in 1992. commercial aviation industry were also implicated. Flight crew training issues at Atlas Air and across the U.S. Investigators attributed the accident to pilot error, finding that the first officer experienced spatial disorientation and inadvertently placed the aircraft in an unrecoverable dive, while the captain failed to adequately monitor the first officer's actions and the flight path of the aircraft. This was the first fatal crash of a Boeing 767 freighter. The accident occurred near Anahuac, Texas, east of Houston, shortly before 12:45 CST (18:45 UTC). On February 23, 2019, the Boeing 767-375ER(BCF) used for this flight crashed into Trinity Bay during approach into Houston, killing the two crew members and single passenger on board. George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas, United StatesĪtlas Air Flight 3591 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight under the Amazon Air banner between Miami International Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida, United States
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