| Statuts: | Enquête Officielle |
| Date: | 26 AVR 1993 |
| Heure: | 13:06 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Boeing 737-2A8 |
| Compagnie: | Indian Airlines |
| Immatriculation: | VT-ECQ |
| Numéro de série: | 20961/375 |
| Année de Fabrication: | 1974-09-18 (18 years 8 months) |
| Heures de vol: | 43886 |
| Moteurs: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A |
| Equipage: | victimes: 2 / à bord: 6 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 53 / à bord: 112 |
| Total: | victimes: 55 / à bord: 118 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | 3 km (1.9 milles) NE of Aurangabad Airport (IXU) (Inde)
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| Phase de vol: | Au décollage (TOF) |
| Nature: | Transport de Passagers Nat. |
| Aéroport de départ: | Aurangabad-Chikkalthana Airport (IXU/VAAU), Inde |
| Aéroport de destination: | Bombay-Sahar International Airport (BOM/VABB), Inde |
| Numéro de vol: | 491 |
Détails:Boeing 737 VT-ECQ was operating flight IC-491 from Delhi to Bombay with enroute stops at Jaipur, Udaipur and Aurangabad. The heavily laden aircraft started its takeoff roll from Aurangabad's runway 09 (which is approx 7500 feet long) in high temperatures (38-41deg C). After lifting off almost at the end of the runway, it impacted heavily with a lorry carrying pressed cotton bales on a highway at a distance of about 410 feet from the end of runway. The left main landing gear, left engine bottom cowling and thrust reverser impacted the left side of the truck at a height of nearly seven feet from the level of the road. Thereafter the aircraft hit the high tension electric wires nearly 3 kms North-East of the runway and hit the ground.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "(i) Pilots' error in initiating late rotation and following wrong rotation technique, and (ii) failure of the NAA to regulate the mobile traffic on the Beed road during the flight hours".
Sources:
» Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1993 (DGAC India)
Photos
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposé destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Aurangabad-Chikkalthana Airport et Bombay-Sahar International Airport est de 277 km (173 miles).
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.