Incident Overview

Date: Friday 8 March 2002
Aircraft Type: Airbus A300B2-101
Owner/operator: Indian Airlines
Registration Number: VT-EFW
Location: Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) – ÿ India
Phase of Flight: Taxi
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Component Affected: Flight Idle Circuit BreakerFlight Idle Circuit Breaker
Category: Accident
A maintenance crew inadvertently activated the flight idle circuit breaker, causing both engines to go to flight idle. This resulted in the aircraft jumping the chocks and heading towards the Airport Repairs Cargo hangar. The pilots lost control, leading to a turn and subsequent straight-through flight into the airport perimeter wall, culminating in a nose wheel collapse and impact with the ground.A maintenance crew inadvertently activated the flight idle circuit breaker, causing both engines to go to flight idle. This resulted in the aircraft jumping the chocks and heading towards the Airport Repairs Cargo hangar. The pilots lost control, leading to a turn and subsequent straight-through flight into the airport perimeter wall, culminating in a nose wheel collapse and impact with the ground.

Description

A maintenance crew prepared the aircraft to taxi. After engine start up both engines went to flight idle because someone inadvertently pulled the flight idle circuit breaker. The A300 jumped the chocks and headed for the Airport Repairs Cargo hangar. Since the engines were in flight idle braking and nosewheel steering did not work. The maintenance crew tried to reduce power on engine number and failing in that, increased power to 90% on the number 2 engine. The aircraft started to turn and after turning some 80 degrees they lost control of the aircraft and it went straight through the airport perimeter wall next to the hangars. The nose wheel collapsed and the aircraft nose dived into the ground. The aircraft was being taxied by a senior aircraft maintenance engineer with 39 years of experience in the field.

Primary Cause

Inadvertent activation of the flight idle circuit breaker.Inadvertent activation of the flight idle circuit breaker.

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