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15-544: PCL may refer to: Aviation [ edit ] FAP Captain David Abenzur Rengifo International Airport , near Pucallpa, Peru (IATA code: PCL) Pilot-controlled lighting , a system by which aircraft pilots can control the lighting of runways and taxiways via radio control Pocket check list , a pilot's check list used by the U.S. Navy Organizations [ edit ] Pacific Coast League ,

30-658: A Class Triple-A league in minor league baseball Pacific Coast Professional Football League , an American football league (1940–1948) Workers' Communist Party (Italy) , an Italian political party established in 2006 Portage County League , a high school sports league in northeastern Ohio, now called the Portage Trail Conference Philadelphia Catholic League , a Catholic high school sports league in Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs Philippine Councilors League , an organization in

45-443: A list of psychopathy diagnostic criteria Program Control Language of Presentation (software) Point Cloud Library of algorithms Proximal Centriole-Like Performance Counters for Linux, a Linux performance monitoring tool, now called perf PTSD Checklist, a screening test for post-traumatic stress disorder Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

60-547: The University of Westminster Science and technology [ edit ] Passive Coherent Location, or passive radar , a radar system exploiting commercial broadcast signals Phosphorus pentachloride , PCl 5 , and Phosphorus trichloride , PCl 3 Plasma cell leukemia Polycaprolactone , a polyester Posterior cruciate ligament , a ligament of the knee Printer Command Language , Hewlett-Packard Psychopathy Checklist, Revised or Hare Psychopathy Checklist ,

75-676: The Philippines with city and municipal councilors as members PCL Construction , a general contracting organization in Canada and the United States Physical Chemistry Laboratory , University of Oxford, England Places [ edit ] Parkway Central Library , the main public library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Perry–Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin Polytechnic of Central London, now

90-481: The South African lessor company Safair two months prior to the accident. With manufacturer's serial number 22580 and powered with two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17A engines, the airframe had its maiden flight on 4 August 1981, and was originally delivered to South African Airways . At the time of the accident, the aircraft had accumulated 49,865 flight hours and 45,262 cycles, and was 24 years old. The captain

105-420: The accident was determined to be pilot error for not following standard procedures under adverse weather conditions. The captain took control of the plane, but the trainee pilot did not immediately monitor the instruments; as a result, the crew did not notice the rapid descent in the few crucial seconds they had where they could have avoided danger. According to Aviation Safety Network , the accident ranks among

120-441: The airplane was engulfed by the fire. With 91 passengers and seven crew members on board, 35 passengers and five crew (including the three pilots) died in the accident. Non- Peruvian occupants of the aircraft included 11 Americans , one Australian, one Colombian, and one Spanish ; Italians were also aboard, but the actual number of them depend upon the source. Most of the fatalities were recorded for passengers travelling in

135-480: The front of the aircraft. Fifty-eight people survived the accident, many of them suffering burns and broken limbs. Investigation of the crash site was hindered by looters, who descended upon the crash and stole various elements to be sold for scrap. A US$ 500 (equivalent to $ 780.03 in 2023) reward did succeed in securing the return of the flight data recorder . After 312 days of investigations, no technical malfunctions were reported. The official cause of

150-457: The region. On 23 August 2005, TANS Perú Flight 204 , a Boeing 737, attempting to land in heavy cumulus clouds, and a severe hailstorm crashed short of the runway at Pucallpa Airport. Out of the 98 passengers and crew on board, 40 were killed. This article about an airport in Peru is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . TANS Per%C3%BA Flight 204 TANS Perú Flight 204

165-645: The title PCL . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PCL&oldid=1138132867 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages FAP Captain David Abenzur Rengifo International Airport Air Majoro also provides air ambulance services to Amazon towns in

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180-527: The worsening weather conditions, the pilot attempted an emergency landing. The aircraft flew through a hailstorm for the last 32 seconds of its ill-fated flight when it was taken down by wind shear, hit tree tops and impacted a swamp located 3.8 nautical miles (7.0 km; 4.4 mi) ahead of the runway threshold. The aircraft broke up as it crashed and burst into flames, leaving a path of debris and flaming fuel 100 feet (30 m) wide and 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km; 0.92 mi) long. The wreckage of

195-454: Was 45-year-old Octavio Perez Palma Garreta, who had 5,867 flight hours, including 3,763 hours on the Boeing 737. The first officer was 37-year-old Jorge Luis Pinto Panta, who had 4,755 flight hours, with 1,109 of them on the Boeing 737; 38-year-old Gonzalo Chirinos Delgado, a trainee pilot, was also on board. He had 2,700 flight hours, but only 61 of them on the Boeing 737. An unusual cold front

210-463: Was a domestic scheduled Lima – Pucallpa – Iquitos passenger service, operated with a Boeing 737-200 Advanced , that crashed on 23 August 2005 on approach to Pucallpa Airport , 4 miles (6.4 km) off the airfield, following an emergency landing attempt because of bad weather, killing 40 of the 98 passengers and crew aboard. The aircraft involved was a 1981-built Boeing 737-244 Advanced registered OB-1809, which had been leased to TANS Perú from

225-435: Was developing in the vicinity of Pucallpa, minutes before the event took place, with cloud tops estimated to be 45,000 feet (14,000 m) high. Instead of diverting to another airport, the crew initiated the approach to Pucallpa Airport with torrential rain, hail, and strong winds. Some 10 minutes before the scheduled time for landing, the aircraft started rocking. Realising that the airport could not be safely reached amid

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