Air India Express plane hits Trichy airport compound wall

[Buzzing]

Air India Express plane hits Trichy airport compound wall, lands safely in Mumbai

Cause unknown as of now.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...w/66173131.cms

[fdr]

Originally Posted by Buzzing

Air India Express plane hits Trichy airport compound wall, lands safely in Mumbai

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...w/66173131.cms

Wow, another lottery win for the passengers. There are easier and cheaper ways of removing masonry. Plane did well though,

[Capn Bloggs]

Was a BBBJ: Brick Bashing Boeing Jet.

[TWT]

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...-strik-452626/

[ATCO1962]

That's a laugh.....pilots claimed they were unaware of the incident. Begs the question as to why they diverted to Mumbai.

[krismiler]

Shades of the “Bristol Cowboy”.
https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightP...20-%203937.PDF

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by ATCO1962

That's a laugh.....pilots claimed they were unaware of the incident. Begs the question as to why they diverted to Mumbai.

Informed by ATC. Read the link.

[LeadSled]

Folks,
Reminds me of something similar years ago, forget where, up in NW India, but an Indian Airlines B737 but a truck on a local road that passed the runway centreline.
It was a nice hot day, and as I recall, the aircraft was well over the WAT limit weight.
In the final accident report, the poor sodding truck driver was lumped with 50% of the blame for driving legally along the public road.
Tootle pip!!

[krismiler]

Times of India reports 130 on board so even with a decent fuel load for Dubai and the usual excess baggage it shouldn't have been close to WAT limits on a night time take off.

[fox niner]

They had to travel horizontally through the localizer antenna to reach that low brick wall. If you were not aware of that as the plane ploughed through, you must have been totally oblivious to anything going on around you.

Twitter

[B Fraser]

"The matter was conveyed to the pilot in command. The pilot in command reported that the aircraft systems were operating normally."

photo of the damage

[BluSdUp]

Like hitting a Brick Wall!

So hitting the proverbial Brick Wall is no big deal!
Who would have known.
Great research.

Cpt B Rick

[Steve Zissou]

Obviously a Trichy departure

[sTeamTraen]

Originally Posted by krismiler

Shades of the “Bristol Cowboy”.
https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightP...20-%203937.PDF

I'm nicking this bit: "Khan reportedly has an agile style with official paperwork"

[aliwyatt]

How high was the wall? was the gear up before hitting the wall but after hitting and taking some of the fence? so many questions....

[On_The_Top_Bunk]

Did the wall not extend outwards to the main landing gear?

Was the gear up on contact?

[Octane]

I don't get it either. The wall looks to be 6 ft tall max, how could the landing gear not take it out? Surely the gear could not be stowed at an altitude of 6 ft?!

[kev2002]

My guess is it was the antenna that hit the wall, possible still attached to the aircraft at the time

[EDML]

Seeing all the damage to the belly of the A/C well behind the main gear they where already (barely) flying with a lot of pitch. Therefore the gear cleared the wall.

[short bus]

I watched a few Indian news reports of the incident on YouTube. There was a photo showing chain-link fencing stuck between the tires on the gear. Also, there are two sections of the wall missing, both approximately equal in size. The holes seemed to close together to be L/R gear though. But it was a quick glimpse.

​​​​Note, the wall was topped with chain link fence, which is obviously gone after this strike.

Also, there is a road immediately on the other side of the wall.