Estado: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Fecha: | sábado 28 diciembre 1996 |
Hora: | 06:10 |
Tipo: | Boeing 737-2A8F |
Operador: | Blue Dart Aviation |
Registración: | VT-EDS |
Numéro de série: | 21164/435 |
Año de Construcción: | 1975-10-06 (21 years 3 months) |
Motores: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A |
Tripulación: | Fatalidades: 0 / Ocupantes: 2 |
Pasajeros: | Fatalidades: 0 / Ocupantes: 0 |
Total: | Fatalidades: 0 / Ocupantes: 2 |
Daños en la Aeronave: | Considerable |
Consecuencias: | Repaired |
Ubicación: | Bangalore-Hindustan Airport (BLR) ( India)
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Fase: | Aterrizaje (LDG) |
Naturaleza: | Carga |
Aeropuerto de Salida: | Mumbai-Sahar International Airport (BOM/VABB), India |
Aeropuerto de Llegada: | Bangalore-Hindustan Airport (BLR/VOBG), India |
Descripción:While landing at Bangalore, the pilot could not align the aircraft with runway centre line. The aircraft touched the
runway surface just after the threshold and 40 feet. right side of the centre line with a high rate of descent and at high speed. The port under carriage got sheered off and the aircraft dragged with port engine touching the runway. The aircraft veered towards left of the runway. The aircraft sustained substantial damage.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was caused due to lapse on the part of pilot-in-command to make landing when the approach was not stabilised and also the aircraft was not aligned with the runway. As a result, the aircraft impacted the runway surface just after threshold on its left side at higher speed and rate of descent leading to substantial damage to its left landing gear and aircraft rolling out of the runway surface on to the left side strip".
Fuentes:
» Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1996 (DGAC India)
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does
not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Mumbai-Sahar International Airport to Bangalore-Hindustan Airport as the crow flies is 849 km (530 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.