Date: | Tuesday 8 March 1994 |
Time: | 14:54 |
Type: | Boeing 737-2R4C |
Owner/operator: | Sahara Airlines |
Registration: | VT-SIA |
MSN: | 21763/571 |
Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Other fatalities: | 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) -
India
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP) |
Destination airport: | Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
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".
Sources:
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)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Oslo-Fornebu Airport (FBU); 20 June 1990
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