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#1 Post by Wodrick » Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:48 am

Air India Express hits wall

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#2 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:22 am

Hard landings are not unknown - but this was a hard take-off.

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#3 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:38 am

The Aviation Herald hasn't got this yet. How on earth can you hit a wall and not know about it?

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#4 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:58 am

I guess the Captain is a mason. ;)))

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#5 Post by Cacophonix » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:07 am

How on earth can you not know you have hit a wall?

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#6 Post by Capetonian » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:21 am

I'm guessing that the undercarriage hit the wall, but you do have to question the lack of aviating skill that lets that happen, and the lack of awareness that let it go unobserved.

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#7 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:32 am

I guess they must have gone through the LLZ antennae to get to the wall.

It is literally incredible that they did not know that they'd hit something. They must also have noticed a significant lack of power during the takeoff roll too.

With the gumment trying to flog off the national airline, I don't suppose there'll be much of an investigation.

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#8 Post by Boac » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:36 am

If you look at the picture you will see it was not just 'the undercarriage'. There is a bleeding great 'ole in the back! Speaks well for Boeing.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ik-452626/

Bet they asked the rear crew to lift their feet off the floor just in case.....

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#9 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:33 am

Beyond belief. Both 'erberts up front should have their licences shredded.
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#10 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:17 am

I hope they retrain ... as bricklayers.

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#11 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:23 am

hit the boundary wall of Tiruchirappalli International Airport on 12 October at 01:18 local time.
it landed in Mumbai at 05:39 local time.
Even allowing for different time zones, it must have been airborn for 'some time' - at what altitude did they fly?
Was the fuselage pressurised?

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#12 Post by ian16th » Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:34 am

Ex-Ascot wrote:
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Beyond belief. Both 'erberts up front should have their licences shredded.
They have been 'de-rostered'!
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#13 Post by Woody » Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:16 pm

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Beyond belief. Both 'erberts up front should have their licences shredded.
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#14 Post by Wodrick » Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:25 pm

Was well on it's way then turned back
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#15 Post by Woody » Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:44 pm

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#16 Post by llondel » Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:17 pm

Boac wrote:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:36 am
If you look at the picture you will see it was not just 'the undercarriage'. There is a bleeding great 'ole in the back! Speaks well for Boeing.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ik-452626/

Bet they asked the rear crew to lift their feet off the floor just in case.....
That's not going to buff out, is it. Probably needs more than duct tape to fix, too.

Although I do wonder if it was just the wheels that hit the wall and that was caused by a pole of some sort.

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#17 Post by G-CPTN » Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:04 pm

llondel wrote:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:17 pm
Boac wrote:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:36 am
If you look at the picture you will see it was not just 'the undercarriage'. There is a bleeding great 'ole in the back! Speaks well for Boeing.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ik-452626/
I do wonder if that was caused by a pole of some sort.
"damaging an ILS (instrument landing system) antenna "

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#18 Post by llondel » Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:47 pm

G-CPTN wrote:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 4:04 pm
llondel wrote:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:17 pm
Boac wrote:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:36 am
If you look at the picture you will see it was not just 'the undercarriage'. There is a bleeding great 'ole in the back! Speaks well for Boeing.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ik-452626/
I do wonder if that was caused by a pole of some sort.
"damaging an ILS (instrument landing system) antenna "
I thought the 'official' stuff on the flight path was supposed to be frangible and fall apart before doing anything like that. Although given that the wall wasn't that high, it could have been something that wasn't ever expected to get near an aircraft because it was behind the wall.

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#19 Post by Wodrick » Fri Oct 12, 2018 5:10 pm

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Here is an image from the other side of the wall methinks and the damage to the Loc Antenna can be seen. Gave that a right twating using technical language.
Must have used the full length +.
He can't have been that much overweight it is only a 4 hour sector to DXB. if there was only 130 pax then that is somewhere around 50 short of a full load. Curious.
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#20 Post by Woody » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:45 am

An Air India flight attendant has been injured after falling from the door of a parked aeroplane at India's Mumbai airport.
Harsha Lobo was preparing the flight for boarding to Delhi on Monday morning when the incident happen.
Ms Lobo, 52, suffered a fracture and other injuries and has been taken to a hospital.
Air India, the country's national carrier, said in a statement that it was investigating the incident.
"In an unfortunate incident, one of our cabin crew (members), Harsha Lobo, fell down on the tarmac from the Boeing-777 aircraft door while closing it," the airline said.
Doctors attended to Ms Lobo at the Mumbai airport before sending her to the hospital.
At least they noticed this time :-o
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