Probably the pilot error caused a fatal crash of Air India Express: report

MUMBAI, Sept 12 (Reuters) – Pilot error and failure to comply with safety guidelines likely caused Air India Express crash that killed 21 people last year, the worst air crash in the country in a decade, the researchers reported in a report.

The Boeing 737, which repatriated Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overtook the runway on the table and crashed as it landed at Calicut International Airport in eastern Kerala in heavy rain. , August 8, 2020.

“The probable cause of the accident was the pilot’s failure to comply with standard operating procedures,” says the report from the Aviation Accident Investigation Bureau, a division of the Ministry of Aviation. Civilian who probes plane crashes.

The pilot “continued an unstabilized approach and landed beyond the touchdown zone, in the middle of the track,” instead of making a “turn,” according to the agency in the 257-page report, released later. of a one-year investigation.

A run is a standard procedure in which the pilot abandons a landing attempt considered unsafe and retries.

Although the pilot overseeing the landing asked him to fly it, the pilot who flew the plane did not, the agency said, and the surveillance pilot also did not take over the controls and run the order.

The plane had already made a failed attempt to land before overcoming the 2,700-meter (8,900-foot) runway. The airport is known as a desktop table because its runways have heavy falls at one or both ends.

The crash at Kozhikode Airport was the worst passenger plane crash in India since 2010, when another Air India Express flight from Dubai overtook a runway in Mangalore, a city from the south, and slid down a hill and killed 158 people.

Reports by Rajendra Jadhav and Aditi Shah; Edited by William Mallard

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