Incident Overview

Description
While landing at Bangalore, the pilot could not align the aircraft with runway centre line. The aircraft touched the runway surface just after the threshold and 40 feet. right side of the centre line with a high rate of descent and at high speed. The port under carriage got sheered off and the aircraft dragged with port engine touching the runway. The aircraft veered towards left of the runway. The aircraft sustained substantial damage. PROBABLE CAUSE: “The accident was caused due to lapse on the part of pilot-in-command to make landing when the approach was not stabilised and also the aircraft was not aligned with the runway. As a result, the aircraft impacted the runway surface just after threshold on its left side at higher speed and rate of descent leading to substantial damage to its left landing gear and aircraft rolling out of the runway surface on to the left side strip”.
Primary Cause
Lapse in pilot-in-command judgment regarding approach stability and alignment with the runway center line.Lapse in pilot-in-command judgment regarding approach stability and alignment with the runway center line.Share on: