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| Date: | Tuesday 22 December 2015 |
| Time: | c. 06:30 |
| Type: |  ATR 42-320 |
| Owner/operator: | Air India Regional |
| Registration: | VT-ABO |
| MSN: | 406 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1995 |
| Engine model: | P&W Canada PW127 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor, written off |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Kolkata-Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport (CCU/VECC) -
 India
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Kolkata-Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU/VECC) |
| Silchar-Kumbhirgram Airport (IXS/VEKU) | |
| Investigating agency: | DGCA India |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
ATR 42-320 aircraft VT-ABO was parked at Bay No. 32 at Kolkata Airport and scheduled to operate flight 9I-9737 to Silchar at 08:00 hours IST.
Meanwhile a passenger coach was assigned to carry two of the cabin crew members from the Terminal Building to Bay No.22 to operate Jet Airways flight 9W-2881, scheduled to depart at 06:10 hrs IST. The passenger coach deviated from the vehicular lane and crashed into the starboard side main landing gear area of the parked ATR aircraft VT-ABO in Bay No. 32. The cabin crew members and the driver on board the passenger coach disembarked immediately from the right side of the coach as the coach was stuck under the starboard wing/engine. The impact was strong and it damaged the starboard undercarriage, starboard engine exhaust and the wing inboard trailing edge. The passenger coach also sustained damages. There were no injuries to the persons in the coach and no evidence of fire was observed.
Probable Cause
Involuntary dozing of the Driver while driving on the apron has resulted into collision of coach with the aircraft.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/west-bengal/story/narrow-shave-for-air-india-plane-at-kolkata-airport-278349-2015-12-22
http://dgca.nic.in/accident/reports/incident/VT-ABO.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 10 June 2012 | VT-ABO | Air India Regional | 0 | Silchar-Kumbhirgram Airport (IXS/VEKU) | |
non |
| Wheel loss/failure | ||||||
Location
Media:
Jet Airways bus crashes into Air India plane at Kolkata airport
https://t.co/2jiOY8r4cy pic.twitter.com/emZYWQbFLL
— India Today (@IndiaToday) December 22, 2015Jet Airways passenger bus crashes into Air India aircraft parked at Kolkata airport; No passengers in the aircraft pic.twitter.com/usvBZWxeoi
— NDTV (@ndtv) December 22, 2015Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Dec-2015 09:36 | harro | Added |
| 10-Oct-2016 16:59 | harro | Updated [Registration, Cn, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 27-Apr-2018 17:23 | MarkStep | Updated [Source, ] |
| 28-Aug-2024 14:52 | ASN | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, ] |
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