| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | January 08, 2016 |
| Time: | 0020 |
| Location: | Akkajaure Lake, Norrbotten, Sweden |
| Operator: | West Air Sweden |
| Flight #: | 294 |
| Route: | Oslo - Tromsų |
| AC Type: | Canadair CRJ-200 |
| Registration: | SE-DUX |
| cn / ln: | 7010 |
| Aboard: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
| Fatalities: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | While en route, the crew of the cargo plan sent a unintelligible mayday message. The plane went into a near vertical dive and disintegrated on impact with the ground.The erroneous attitude indication on PFD 1 was caused by a malfunction of the Inertial Reference Unit (IRU 1). The pitch and roll comparator indications of the pilot flying's display were removed when the attitude indicators displayed unusual attitudes. In the simulator, in which the crew had trained, the corresponding indications were not removed. During the event the pilots initially became communicatively isolated from each other. The accident was caused by insufficient operational prerequisites for the management of a failure in a redundant system. |
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