Incident Overview

Date: Tuesday 1 January 1980
Aircraft Type: Boeing 737-2A8
Owner/operator: Indian Airlines
Registration Number: VT-EAH
Location: Ahmedabad Airport (AMD) – ÿ India
Phase of Flight: Take off
Status: Substantial, repaired
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Component Affected: Flight crew’s thrust lever position and monitoring of engine instruments.Flight crew’s thrust lever position and monitoring of engine instruments.
Category: Accident
A pilot instructor initiated a touch-and-go exercise on a training flight, simulating a right-hand engine failure. Upon observing the aircraft speed decline, the instructor pushed power levers forward, resulting in the aircraft musching into the ground and sustaining significant damage. This was due to a failure to adequately monitor and ensure both engine thrust levers were developing take-off EPR before pulling the lever.A pilot instructor initiated a touch-and-go exercise on a training flight, simulating a right-hand engine failure. Upon observing the aircraft speed decline, the instructor pushed power levers forward, resulting in the aircraft musching into the ground and sustaining significant damage. This was due to a failure to adequately monitor and ensure both engine thrust levers were developing take-off EPR before pulling the lever.

Description

During a touch-and-go exercise on a training flight, the pilot instructor cut off power to simulate a right-hand engine failure. Observing aircraft speed falling below the bug speed, the pilot instructor cautioned the trainee pilot. The trainee pilot eased the control column forward and reduced the pitch to arrest further fall in aircraft speed. However, on observing further reduction in speed of the aircraft, the instructor pilot pushed forward the power levers, but before the engines could spool up, the aircraft mushed into the ground and sustained substantial damage. The probable cause of the accident has been attributed to failure on the part of the flight crew to ensure that both engines were developing take-off EPR before the right-hand engine thrust lever was pulled back. This resulted from disregard and lack of adherence to the prescribed procedures of giving standard callouts and monitoring of thrust lever(s) position and engine instruments, etc.

Primary Cause

Failure to adequately monitor and ensure both engine thrust levers were developing take-off EPR before pulling the lever.Failure to adequately monitor and ensure both engine thrust levers were developing take-off EPR before pulling the lever.

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