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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.
No more bathroom breaks for pilots. Just put them in adult diapers.
ha ha ..couldn't stop laughing for 5 min...
thanks...
Hey, if it is good enough for astronauts, it should be good enough for pilots.
Wow. WTH didn't they think to fully train their co-pilot before letting him fly? That airline is run by idiots!
OMG its like being over Macho Grande all over again..../screwdriver off
Glad the crew and passengers are ok at least if not a bit shaken.
It's the Directorate General who told another Indian airline that they could not hire my very experienced jet jockey brother because they need to hire citizens, no more expat pilots. They are happy to take our jobs but won't hire us. So this is what they get! Do NOT fly on these airlines!!!!!!
India should get a million highly qualified pilots out of the billion people there.
FYI, Most of the pilots in Air India is russians
They should stick to building casinos
Beautiful, just beautiful! Casinos. You done good with that one!
Maharash, what happened????
had “went through an air pocket and that is why there was a rapid descent,”
Had went??? When did Americans lose the ability to conjugate the verb "go"?
I'm sure the American captain conjugated it correctly. The nationality of the employee of the Directorate General who transcribed it is not in doubt.
When they became Indians! LMAO
@comment 47
No one cares.
There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
Holy crap, you owe me a pepsi! LOL
There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
Brad Lendon needs to go back to school and learn how to conjugate the verb 'go'. " That the plane had “went..." is ungrammatical and needs to be 'that the plane had gone..." Any quality reviewers at CNN?
oh he is an american
HOPE THE PASSENGERS WERE REFUNDED BACK THEIR FARE
It was fortunate that the pilots didn't have to call the yoke manufacturer's of customer service line to figure out the problem.
I have been krop dustin fur over 40 yers and I never herd such a rubish storie. Air India shoud be a-shemed. Not everone was borne las nite. Truthe is he probelly was talkin on the fone with his girfrien.
O sh@^ what the code for the door????? o ya 1,1,1,1
if this was in a movie it would have looked ridiculous. are their aviation laws different than ours or could we have a kid copiloting?