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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.
What button or lever does one have to "bump" against to send a plane plummeting to the earth? I'm not a pilot, but couldn't he have just pulled up on the control column steering wheel type thing?
"This must turn on the landing lights."
yes. after reducing power.
The autopilot disengage button is typically on the yoke (steering wheel for you non-pilot dudes). If bumped/pressed you get a beep beep beep first and then you the pilot are back to flying...if you are there!
Trim should have kept the aircraft fairy close to level flight. I think there is more to the story. Press is clueless.
After scraping my underwear of excess detritus, I believe I would have ordered adouble vodka martini....
The only people who talk about vodka martinis are ditzy women, or sissy fruit boys.
or europeans 😛
Hey, James Bond drinks vodka martinis, and he's no sissy!!
by the way, martinis -vodka or otherwise are among the strongest drinks out there. whimpy boys or prissy girls would know they give the most bang for the buck. compared to what?; your jagermeister, bourbon and coke, or shot of scotch?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Yeah, that's waht this pilot did !!!
I picked the wrong week to give up smoking!!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
Unexperienced/ unrested piolots and poorly maintained aircrafts are the biggest dangers while flying not terrorists yet billions more are spent trying to keep stop terrorists from hijacking or getting explosives on planes than is spent maintaining aircraft or training pilots to handle emergencies
I completely agree. That is why I call the TSA actions unreasonable search, and if they take away your nail clippers, that is unreasonable seizure.
And yet fatal plane crashes are relatively rare and statistically less likely to kill than car crashes.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.
Did the passengers want curry during the "dive"?
...what?
I flew single engine fighters in the Air Force, but this plane has four engines. It's an entirely different kind of flying altogether.
It's an entirely different kind of flying.
it's an entirely different kind of flying
it's an entirely different kind of flying
It's an entirely different kind of flying.
4 engines because, one for making left turn, one for right turn, one for moving forward and the last one being for moving backward. That 's all !! Simple !!!
Isitn't it?
It's an entirely different kind of flying
I dunno where, but I heard it is an entirely different way of flying.
Striker, have you ever flown a multi-engine plane before?
uh... the 737 has 2, not FOUR, engines -_-
Clearly you haven't seen the movie Airplane!
It's an entirely different kind of flying.
737s only have two engines.
@silly: OHHH, okay, got it. it's been a while, i was still in junior high when i watched that movie
This is serious, but don't call me Shirley.
It's an entirely different kind of flying altogether.
it's an entirely different kind of flying
Altogether
It's an entirely different kind of flying.
Did any one mention that it's an entirely different kind of flying
Word on the street is it is an entirely different kind of flying altogether.
It's an entirely different kind of flying, roger Roger!
Beggin' your pardon sir but there are only two engines on a 737.
It's an entirely different kind of flying.
It's a completely different kind of flying.
OK...It's an entirely different kind of flying altogether.
It's an entirely different kind of flying..
For those who haven't seen Airplane, the joke here is that he says, "It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether" which could be heard as "all together" – so everyone else says, in unison, "It's an entirely different kind of flying." Makes more sense when heard than seen written. Now please, update your Netflix queues!
It must be an entirely different kind of flying
@KingofFlying: Don't waste your time. Racists are all over the place. Ignore. Go learn C programming. And as far as pilots are concerned, let the brainless "racists" do the menial jobs 😀
Personally, I too am scared of flying any Indian airlines 🙂
I don't understand how this qualifies as "This Just In" when it happened SIX MONTHS AGO!!!!
Both pilot and co-pilot should be fired and each passenger should have been refunded their money.
Absolutely ridiculous in this day and age that a co-pilot could first cause this (if that is what really happenned) and then could not recover from it without the pilot's help.
Pilot should be fired for potty break? How about 50 lashes from a dominatrix instead?
It's India not America. Your rules do not apply oh mighty one.
Similar stuff has happened before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_841_(1979)
read a fuller article surrounding the story yesterday, and surprise surprise CNN had to go and add an extra 1000 ft to the drop. 2 other articles covered this and both reported 6000 foot drops... great fact checking CNN, as usual
What was it we had for dinner tonight?
Well, we had a choice of steak or fish.
Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.
The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing: finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner.
The pilot actually had the curry , lol
To this day i don't get that one.
RIP Leslie.
And the last words we would have heard on the Black Box, "Jeez, my a.s.s itches"
I think achmed the pilot was using this as an excuse to scout out another location for a 711.
" Jim, these hemorhiods are killing me! I gotta put my ring cushion down..HOLY--!!! What button did I push?"
A 25 year old co-pilot.... seems just a bit young to me to be given that much responsibility...