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| September 8, 2010 | Mangalore air crash due to pilot's error | | Mumbai: An investigation into the four-month old Mangalore
air crash that killed 158 people has revealed that the mishap occurred due to pilot's error. An analysis of the audio on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) shows that the Air India Express Boeing 737 was incorrectly aligned to the runway while attempting to land, an NDTV report stated on Wednesday evening. It has been
found that the plane, the audio recording establishes, was too high to make a
safe landing and the Ground Proximity Warning System sounded several times. The
co-pilot is heard on the audio asking the captain, a pilot of Serbian origin,
to abort landing. "We don't have enough runway left," the co-pilot told the captain,
as heard on the audio. It has also been found that Thrust reversers, critical
braking systems on jetliners, were applied late, only after the Boeing 737-800
jet was 6000 feet down the length of 8038 foot runway. The Bajpe airport in Mangalore
has a table-top runway with steep cliffs on all sides. On May 22, the Air India
Express Boeing overshot the runway and plunged down a ravine bursting into flames.
It was 6:05 am. The only survivors from among the 160 passengers and six crew
members on board were those who were thrown off the plane. The Boeing 737-800,
which was inducted on January 15, 2008, was being piloted by a British national
of Serbian origin, Captain Zlatko Glusica, who, Civil Aviation Minister Praful
Patel later said had 7,000 hours as a pilot in command, with over 2000 of those
on a Boeing. He was familiar with the Mangalore airport and had landed there 19
times, the Minister had stated. The Indian co-pilot, HS Ahluwalia, had landed
at Mangalore airport 66 times.
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