The sole passenger that alighted was lucky to have done so without the aid of a body bag. The report is illuminating, and begs the following question about the corporate world's aviation business: Why do rich businessmen have such pilots on their flight decks?
You have to have a lot of money floating about to run a Gulfstream. Yet as rich as these captains of industry are, they either don't seem to care or they just don't know how unsafe operators in the corporate world, along with their pilots, can be.
Here is a summary of the incident:
"The Investigation has concerns regarding the oversight of the operation of this aircraft by the Operator, in particular the standard, training and proficiency of the crew.
This is evidenced by the confusion in the cockpit during the occurrence, the apparent lack of familiarity with navigational equipment, the loss of situational awareness on the part of the crew, failure to comply with DGCA of India Civil Aviation Requirements, poor crew resource management and an inappropriate series of engine starts and run-ups to a high power setting conducted on an engine which was known by the crew to be damaged"...
not to mention the following four points:
1. The crew made a number of rushed and inappropriate decisions during the flight, thus displaying poor crew resource management.
2. The First Officer’s lack of recent flying hours is likely to have contributed to his loss of navigational and situational awareness.
3. A "false localiser" signal was received due to Approach mode being armed while the aircraft was outside the specific localiser coverage sector.
4. The Captain commenced a descent without having a valid ILS signal and without cross-checking other available navigation aids.
Good work from the controller....