Air India Mangalore Aircrash

This is what seems to have happened early on Saturday morning at the Mangalore airport as the Air India flight from Dubai was landing. This has been pieced together from some information trickling in. Complete facts will be known only after an inquiry.

The landing approach was normal and the pilot reported to ATC 10 miles from touchdown

The AI Express plane was given landing clearance 4 miles from touchdown

ATC saw the plane approaching and the entry to the runway was normal

The pilot missed the landing mark by 2,000 feet, say sources

There was a slight drizzle at the time, but the runway was not wet, and visibility was good

The trouble began when the aircraft landed beyond touchdown zone and overshot the runway. It is a table top runway with a cliff just beyond The pilot tried to stop by hard-braking, the tyres burst

Survivors report hearing a loud noise, possibly a tyre burst

The plane veered and hit the concrete base of an antenna at the edge of the runway. A wing broke

The plane moved towards the cliff, split on the edge and fell into the valley

Survivors were thrown out at the edge of the tarmac and some got stuck in overhead cables

Kingfisher Airlines ATR-72 passenger plane

An ATR-72 passenger plane, operated by Kingfisher Airlines
, was damaged when it skidded off the runway on landing at Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM), India. Flight IT4124 operated on a scheduled domestic flight from Bhavnagar Airport

(BHU


) to Mumbai. Maintenance on main runway 27 at Mumbai effected operations at the airport between certain times.

King Air C-90 aircraft

King Air C-90 aircraft owned and operated by Govt of Punjab was operating Positioning flight from Chandigarh to Ludhiana on 29.10.08 with two cockpit crew on board. The flight en-route up to overhead Ludhiana was uneventful. The crew located the runway late due prevailing Low visibility. They were not comfortable with the approach and made a go around; a non-standard go-around due to low visibility. In the anxiety to not to loose the sight of the field they descended in three orbits in the vicinity of the airfield on the west side of R/w 12, perhaps to land after making the short circuit from the right. However they lost the control and impacted with the ground in the steep left bank. Aircraft got destroyed crash due to impact and post impact fire. Both the occupant on board died due to fire and collapsing aircraft structure.

The Premier 1 corporate jet aircraft

The Premier 1 corporate jet aircraft took off normally from Jodhpur (JDH


), India. The flight en-route up to approach to land at Udaipur (UDR


) was uneventful. After clearance to land at Udaipur the pilot selected the flaps-10; the flap didn't respond and "Flaps-Fail" message flashed. The pilot decided to go for a flap-less landing and carried out the check list for Flaps Up approach & landing. The approach speed of the aircraft was probably high and it could not be brought to the assigned limit for flap less landing. The pilot continued approach at high speed. From about 25 feet height, the aircraft had a sort of free fall and impacted the runway. It rolled for about 150 feet with heavy breaking on both the wheels; which caused heavy rubber deposits on the runway and subsequent tyre burst. The aircraft veered to right and hit the boundary wall before it stopped.

Vulcanair P68C aircraft VT-JOY

Vulcanair P68C aircraft VT-JOY operated by M/s Joy Alukkas Traders (I)

pvt Ltd, Cochin operating flight from Bangalore Airport to Cochin on 08.9.2007 after refueling at Bangalore. Its took-off from Bangalore airport runway 27 at approx 1514 Hrs normally. At about1520 Hrs IST the aircraft wanted to return back due technical. However it could not make it as it was losing the engine power very fast. Subsequently Radar contact with the aircraft was lost and the aircraft crashed onto the lakebed of Gawdanapalya Lake, about 5NM Southwest of Bangalore airport. All the persons onboard received fatal injuries. There was no evidence of fire. Aircraft was completely destroyed.

Jet Airways ATR 72-212A aircraft VT -JCE

ATR
72-212A aircraft VT -JCE operated by M/s Jet Airways
was operating schedule flight sectors Delhi-Bhopal-Indore-Delhi on 1.7.2007. The flight up-till approach to land at Indore was normal. On coming to the runway the aircraft touched down moderately hard and bounced high. The Pilots were perhaps determined to salvage the abnormal situation and added Power to the Engines with intention to cushion the sink-rate and settle the runway. On the contrary, aircraft came hard on the RWY
and bounced once again. This got followed with a series of bounces in succession. While bouncing the aircraft migrated from the runway and finally came to full halt on right side close to airport boundary wall. There was no fire in the accident.

Agni Aerosports Adventure Academy

The aircraft owned and operated by M/s Agni Aerosports Adventure Academy,

Bangalore was scheduled for a flight from Jakkur airport to Nadirgul on 7.4.2004. The aircraft took off at about 1115 Hrs with four persons on board including pilot in command. Film actress Ms. Soundarya was also on board the aircraft. After attaining a height of about 150 ft after takes off, the aircraft took a steep left turn, stalled and hit the ground. A few minutes later, the aircraft caught fire and all the occupants received fatal injuries. The aircraft got destroyed due impact and post impact fire.