Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 09 JAN 1993 |
| Time: | 04:08 |
| Type: | Tupolev 154B-2 |
| Operating for: | Indian Airlines |
| Leased from: | Uzbekistan Airways |
| Registration: | 85533 |
| C/n / msn: | 82A-533 |
| First flight: | 1982 |
| Engines: | 3 Kuznetsov NK-8-2U |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 152 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 165 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (India)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Hyderabad-Begumpet Airport (HYD/VOHY), India |
| Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP), India | |
| Flightnumber: | 840 |
Because of a pilot strike at Indian Airlines, a Tupolev 154 plane and crew were leased from Uzbekistan Airways. The Tupolev was operating flight IC-840 from Hyderabad to Delhi. Visibility was poor at Delhi when the airplane approached runway 28. The aircraft touched down slightly outside the right edge of the runway, collided with some fixed installations on the ground, got airborne again and finally touched down on kutcha ground on the right side of the runway. At this stage the right wing and the tail of the aircraft broke away and it came to rest in an inverted position.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "(a) The failure of the Pilot-in-Command, Capt
» Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1993 (DGAC India)
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Distance from Hyderabad-Begumpet Airport to Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport as the crow flies is 1236 km (773 miles).
Distance from Hyderabad-Begumpet Airport to Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport as the crow flies is 1236 km (773 miles).
