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Report: Co-pilot moved seat, sent jetliner plummeting
The co-pilot of an Air India Express 737 sent the jetliner into a terrifying 7,000-foot plunge in May when he accidentally hit the control column while adjusting his seat, investigators report.
According to the report from India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the co-pilot panicked and was unable to execute the proper procedures as the jetliner dropped from 37,000 feet at a 26-degree angle. The plane and its 113 passengers were saved when the pilot, who’d gone on a bathroom break, used an emergency code to get into the locked cockpit, jumped back into his seat and grabbed the controls to bring the plummeting plane out of its dive.
The aircraft would have broken apart if the descent had continued, the aviation agency report said. The aircraft was not damaged and no one was injured, the report said.
After the pilot, 39, regained control of the plane, he told passengers, who were in the middle of a meal when the jet plunged, that the plane had “went through an air pocket and that is why there was a rapid descent,” according to the report.
The aviation agency report concluded that the 25-year-old co-pilot had not been trained in the specific scenario the jet encountered and “probably had no clue to tackle this kind of emergency.”
Neither the pilot nor co-pilot were named in the report.
The Air India Express flight was en route from Dubai to Pune, India, on May 25 when the incident occurred.
Some co-pilot! What, he cant pull back on the yolk or press the auto-pilot return system on his own.....Isn't a co-pilot a pilot? This makes no sense....
No, Intellgencia, not all own or work in 7-11...some own or work at Dairy Queens....catchow!
Uh, should someone who doesn't know how to fix those types of situation REALLY be left alone like that? It shows he has no idea what he was doing and should just be sent back to flight school...
As for the passengers, I would've pooped my panties if I were them.
His name is Bahadur. His brother Frontdur. With his cousin Screendur watching his little brother backdur. Stick with cooking curry and not flying planes.
wow, racism at its best- congrats to your folks for raising you this way
This post got past a moderator? Amazing...
Holy smokes!!! A jet pilot who is not trained on getting out of a dive!?!?! How can that possibly be? How can you even have someone who is 25 years old behind they controls in a commercial airliner? Something is seriously wrong here! Don't blame the untrained pilot, blame the people that certified him.
"the 25-year-old co-pilot had not been trained in the specific scenario the jet encountered and probably had no clue to tackle this kind of emergency.”
are you kidding me? then what exactly was he trained for? looking at the automatic pilot? what separates commercial and private flight licenses is, in theory at least, countless hours spent training on just these kinds of emergencies!
Phew...It happens in India all the time.
Would you like a slurpee ?
This story certainly doesn't add up AT ALL. A co-pilot that didn't know how to bring the plane out of a dive?? And the timing of this...just so happened when the pilot went to use the restroom! Sounds like a suicide attempt to me and anyone who knows anything about aviation.
Ouch, what you say does make sense, especially sense the pilot had to use an EMERGENCY CODE in order to gain access to the cabin.
He must have been locked out my the pilot.???!/!?!!!????
It was Bush's fault
He should be fired and sent to jail. That co-pilot is very very very stupid.
We are just NOW hearing this???
An Air india Express landing.
When I was traveling in India some years ago, I had been warned about the domestic airlines (Air India international flights are fine). I'm actually glad that, true to their reputation, all my domestic flights during that trip were delayed multiple times and then cancelled, forcing me to use ground transport to get around the subcontinent (frightening enough if you ever saw all the terrible bus and truck accidents littering the highways). Best option for domestic travel within India is the trains!
Good thing he didn't put the tray table down...it would have been all over.
This news is late because it was a cover up in which Wikileaks release recently