Air India Express flight 812

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Air India Express flight 812
Air India Express Boeing 737-800 SDS-1.jpg

The accident machine at Mumbai Airport in August 2008
Accident summary
Accident type Overshooting the runway
place behind runway 24 at Mangalore Airport
12 ° 56 ′ 48 ″  N , 74 ° 52 ′ 25 ″  E Coordinates: 12 ° 56 ′ 48 ″  N , 74 ° 52 ′ 25 ″  E
date May 22, 2010
Fatalities 158
Survivors 8th
Injured 8th
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 737-800
operator Air India Express
Mark VT-AXV
Departure airport Dubai International Airport , United Arab Emirates
Destination airport Bajpe Airport IATA code: IXE, India
Passengers 160
crew 6th
Lists of aviation accidents

Air India Express flight 812 was a scheduled flight of the Indian airline Air India Express from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates to Bajpe Airport ( IATA code: IXE) near Mangalore in India. On 22 May 2010, a shot on Boeing 737-800 at the landing , the runway 24 of the airport and crashed in a forest. The plane broke in two and burned out. 158 people were killed in the accident , 8 people survived the accident.

It was the first serious aircraft accident in India since the accident on Alliance Air flight 7412 in Patna in July 2000 and since the collision of Saudi Arabian Airlines flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines flight 1907 over Charkhi Dadri in 1996 the most momentous aircraft accident in the history of aviation in India. Before the accident on Lion Air Flight 610, it was the most casualty incident involving a Boeing 737.

plane

The aircraft involved in the accident is a Boeing 737-800 with the production number 36333/2481. The first flight of the machine took place on December 20, 2007. The plane with the air vehicle registration VT-AXV was with two turbofan type -Triebwerken CFM56-7B27 equipped.

crew

The pilot in charge was the British citizen of Serbian origin Z. Glusica, the copilot was the Indian S. S. Ahluwalia. In total, the aircraft crew consisted of six people.

Course of events

The plane crashed while attempting to land on runway 24 at Mangalore airport . After touchdown, the plane did not come to a standstill, broke through a fence and a protective wall and slid down a slope. It turned and came to rest in a wooded area outside the airport, where it broke in two and caught fire.

examination

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation ordered an investigation into the accident. According to air traffic control, the pilots had not reported an emergency. The flight recorder was recovered three days after the accident . According to a report by Spiegel Online (which largely coincides with original assumptions), the captain landed the aircraft on the runway too late. The "Hindustan Times" magazine wrote that the machine only touched down after about 1.5 kilometers on the almost 2.5 kilometer long runway. The captain slept for more than half of the three and a half hour flight from Dubai to Mangalore. He was also "disoriented" when the machine began the approach .

The airport is located in Bajpe, about 30 km from Mangalore, in a mountainous area and is considered a difficult airport to approach.

See also

  • Air India Express flight 1344 , another incident by the same airline on August 7, 2020 with the same type of aircraft and the same type of accident

Web links

 Wikinews: Air crash in Mangalore: At least 160 dead  - message

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Plane crashes in south India, 158 dead (English) , Reuters Alertnet. May 22, 2010. 
  2. ^ A b Air India Express IX-812 Accident - Press Release 2. Air India , May 22, 2010, archived from the original on May 25, 2010 ; accessed on November 22, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ List of passengers on Air India Express flight (English) , The Hindu. May 22, 2010. 
  4. ↑ India plane 'crashes on landing' (English) . In: BBC News , May 22, 2010. 
  5. ^ Accident report B-737-800 VT-AXV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 22, 2019.
  6. ^ Accident report B-737-800 VT-AXV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 22, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b c d Tom Bonnett: India Plane Crash Kills At Least 160 People (English) , Sky News . May 22, 2010. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved on April 22, 2019. 
  8. ↑ Spiegel Online: Crash with 158 dead - the pilot allegedly put the jet on the runway too late , May 23, 2010
  9. ↑ BBC: India crash investigators recover data recorder (English). May 25, 2010
  10. ↑ Spiegel Online: Air crash in India - pilot is said to have slept before the crash , November 17, 2010