Incident Overview

Date: Saturday 2 December 1995
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-2A8
Owner/operator: Indian Airlines
Registration Number: VT-ECS
Location: Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) – ÿ India
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 108
Component Affected: Aircraft Engine, Airframe, Wings, Speed BrakeAircraft Engine, Airframe, Wings, Speed Brake
Category: Accident
An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft, VT-ECS, experienced a near-miss landing due to a highly unstable approach near Delhi Airport. The aircraft touched down approximately 2000 feet before the runway, resulting in significant damage to the aircraft’s engines, undercarriage, and wings. The pilot’s actions ? including rushing the flight, failing to decelerate, and not properly monitoring the speed brake ? contributed to the incident.An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft, VT-ECS, experienced a near-miss landing due to a highly unstable approach near Delhi Airport. The aircraft touched down approximately 2000 feet before the runway, resulting in significant damage to the aircraft’s engines, undercarriage, and wings. The pilot’s actions ? including rushing the flight, failing to decelerate, and not properly monitoring the speed brake ? contributed to the incident.

Description

Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft VT-ECS was operating flight IC-492 from Mumbai (Bombay) to Delhi via Jaipur. Following an unstabilized approach, the plane touched down some 2000 feet before the end of the runway. The aircraft could not be stopped on the remaining runway length and went beyond the runway into kutcha ground. Both engines, undercarriage and the wings sustained major damage. PROBABLE CAUSE: “The accident was caused by the combined effect of (a) The injudicious and imprudent decision of the Pilot-in-Command to hastily complete the flight in the inadequate time available before the notified closure of Delhi airport for a VVIP flight, (b) The dangerously unstabilised approach made by the Pilot-in-Command, primarily due to his failure to decelerate the aircraft in time, (c) The failure of the First Officer to call out significant deviations from the stipulated approach parameters, (d) The failure of the Pilot-in-Command to carry out a missed approach in spite of his approach being grossly unstabilised, (e) The inadvertent omission of the Pilot-in-Command to arm the speed brake before landing, (f) Touch-down of the aircraft at excessive speed and too far down the runway, (g) Failure of the First Officer and Pilot-in-Command to monitor the automatic deployment of the speed brake, and failure of the Pilot-in-Command to deploy it manually, (h) Impact of the aircraft with an 18-inch high cement-concrete cable duct in the kutcha ground beyond the over-run area”.

Primary Cause

The combined effect of (a) The imprudent pilot-in-command’s hasty flight completion, (b) The dangerously unstable approach, (c) The First Officer’s failure to call out deviations, (d) The Pilot-in-command’s missed approach, (e) The pilot-in-command’s failure to arm the speed brake, (f) Excessive speed and distance during touchdown, (g) Failure of the First Officer and Pilot-in-command to monitor the speed brake, and (h) Impact with a cement-concrete cable duct.The combined effect of (a) The imprudent pilot-in-command’s hasty flight completion, (b) The dangerously unstable approach, (c) The First Officer’s failure to call out deviations, (d) The Pilot-in-command’s missed approach, (e) The pilot-in-command’s failure to arm the speed brake, (f) Excessive speed and distance during touchdown, (g) Failure of the First Officer and Pilot-in-command to monitor the speed brake, and (h) Impact with a cement-concrete cable duct.

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