Accident
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 08 MAR 1994 |
| Time: | 14:54 |
| Type: | Boeing 737-2R4C |
| Operator: | Sahara Airlines |
| Registration: | VT-SIA |
| C/n / msn: | 21763/571 |
| First flight: | 1979-04-25 (14 years 11 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (India)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP), India |
| Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP), India |
Sahara India Airlines Boeing 737 VT-SIA was engaged in a training flight with an instructor and 3 trainee pilots. Five circuits and landings were completed uneventfully and during the sixth touch-and-go exercise, after the take off from runway 28, the aircraft made a left turn and crashed at the International Terminal Apron. The wreckage of aircraft hit an Aeroflot Ilyushin 86 aircraft parked on Bay No. 45 as a result of which it also caught fire. Two Aeroflot employees, a Russian ground engineer and an airport worker were killed on the ground.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident occurred due to application of wrong rudder by trainee pilot
» Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1994 (DGAC India)
Photos
LN-NPB flew for Norwegian airline Busy Bee for 12 years before being sold to the U.S. in 1991. In October 1993, the airplane was sold to Sahara India.
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Distance from Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport to Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
Distance from Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport to Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
