Status:	Final
Date:	Tuesday 8 March 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: 5
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Aircraft fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (   India)
Crash site elevation:	237 m (778 feet) amsl
Phase:	Takeoff (TOF)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP), India
Destination airport:	Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP), India

Narrative:
A 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. During the sixth touch-and-go exercise, after the take off from runway 28, the aircraft had climbed to 400-500 feet when it banked left 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 inside the Il-86. One employee of an airport oil company was killed on the tarmac.
The Ilyushin 86, RA-86119, had made an unscheduled diversion to Delhi due to technical problems. The airplane had been repaired and fully fuelled (52 tons).

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident occurred due to application of wrong rudder by trainee pilot during engine failure exercise. Capt. did not guard/block the rudder control and give clear commands as Instructor so as to obviate the application of wrong rudder control by the trainee pilot".

Loss of control

» Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1994 (DGAC India)
» Sahara Aircraft Crash at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi (India) / Mr Kishu Teckchandani (Aircraft Disaster Management Conference 27-29 March 1996)