Incident Overview
Description
Boeing 737 VT-ECQ was operating flight 491 from Delhi to Bombay with enroute stops at Jaipur, Udaipur and Aurangabad. The heavily laden aircraft started its takeoff roll from Aurangabad’s runway 09 (which is approx 7500 feet long) in high temperatures (38-41deg C). After lifting off almost at the end of the runway, it impacted heavily with a lorry carrying pressed cotton bales on a highway at a distance of about 410 feet from the end of runway. The left main landing gear, left engine bottom cowling and thrust reverser impacted the left side of the truck at a height of nearly seven feet from the level of the road. Thereafter the aircraft hit the high tension electric wires nearly 3 km North-East of the runway and hit the ground. PROBABLE CAUSE: “(i) Pilots’ error in initiating late rotation and following wrong rotation technique, and (ii) failure of the NAA to regulate the mobile traffic on the Beed road during the flight hours”.
Primary Cause
Pilot error in initiating late rotation and following wrong rotation technique, combined with failure of the NAA to regulate mobile traffic on the Beed road during the flight hours.Pilot error in initiating late rotation and following wrong rotation technique, combined with failure of the NAA to regulate mobile traffic on the Beed road during the flight hours.Share on:
