Air India Express plane hits Trichy airport compound wall
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From what I heard At lift off the captain's seat got seat moved back from its position resulting in yoke going up and in reflex captain pushed the yoke which pushed the aircraft's nose down, resulting in these unfortunate incident.
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Originally Posted by DavereidUK
Reports suggest that it was the belly of the aircraft that hit the localizer antenna, but the question asked was what had impacted the wall, which was the rear fuselage.
tonytales,
By the look of damage from the existing photos on here, it is only superficial damage in and around the wheel wells and keel beam area and the fuselage pressure vessel has not been punctured/ruptured hence no loss of pressurisation (that we know of ???) By the look of the damage on the brick wall, I'd say both gears came into contact with the wall. Soooooo lucky that this was not a disastrous outcome!!!
McHale.
By the look of damage from the existing photos on here, it is only superficial damage in and around the wheel wells and keel beam area and the fuselage pressure vessel has not been punctured/ruptured hence no loss of pressurisation (that we know of ???) By the look of the damage on the brick wall, I'd say both gears came into contact with the wall. Soooooo lucky that this was not a disastrous outcome!!!
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anyone that has ever flown in India will know all about this and lots of other happenings. We don’t hear 3% of the aviation shenanigans that go on in the subcontinent. This will be swept under someone’s desk, tea money will be put in an envelope, head bobbles exchanged and another crisis averted through journalistic dynamicism, lyrical skulduggery, archaic prose and feats of executive needful sabbatical misappropriation of the dutiful duties of his excellency the Vice Chairman Minister of aviation learning knowledge and Aerodrome awareness and reporting. India don’t change, India changes you.
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The picture of the wall says either a lot about the strength of Mr Boeing's aircraft or not a lot about the building skills of Indian bricklayers.
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Can anyone run these numbers? 738, trip length 1590nm/2491km, runway length 2427m/7963 feet, OAT 83F/23C.
Assuming about 13T of gas, 170pax, nil wind, 26k engines, bleeds on, it would be at 35ft about 100m prior to the end of the runway using an assumed temp of 39 degrees. If they wanted to use full thrust it would be at 35ft about 400m prior to the end of the runway. V2 of about 150.
There are potentially other variables that would make quite a big difference though.