Air India Express Flight 812

Another Boeing 737 of Air India Express, which is similar to the crashed plane

Air-India Express Flight 812 was a scheduled flight of the Indian Air India Express from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates to Bajpe Airport ( IATA: IXE) at Mangalore in India. On 22 May 2010, a Boeing 737-800 overshot the runway while landing 24 of the airport and crashed in a forest. The plane broke in two, and burned out. When the aircraft accident 158 people were killed, eight people survived the accident.

It is the first serious accident in India since the crash of Alliance Air flight 7412 in Patna in July 2000 and since the collision of Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 Charkhi Dadri in 1996, the most serious accident in the history of aviation in India.

Aircraft

In the crashed aircraft is a Boeing 737-800 with the serial number 36333/2481. The first flight of the machine took place on 20 December 2007. The aircraft with the aircraft registration mark VT AXV was equipped with two turbofan engines of the type CFM56- 7B27.

Crew

The pilot in command was the British citizen of Serbian origin F. Glusica, co- pilot was the Indian S. S. Ahluwalia. The flight crew consisted of six people.

Course

The aircraft crashed in an attempted landing on runway 24 of the airport in Mangalore. After touchdown, the aircraft is not stalled, broke through two sets of limits, a fence and a protective wall, slid down a slope and came in a wooded area outside the airport to a stop. In this case, the aircraft turned, broke in two and caught fire.

Investigation

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has ordered an investigation of the accident flight. According to the air traffic control the pilot has not reported any case of emergency. Three days after the accident, the flight data recorder was recovered. According to a report by Spiegel Online ( which essentially covers with original assumptions ), the pilot placed the aircraft late on the runway. The magazine " Hindustan Times " wrote, therefore, the machine was placed on the nearly 2.5 -kilometer runway only after about 1.5 miles. The pilot had slept for more than half of the three and a half hour flight from Dubai to Mangalore. He was also " disoriented " was when the machine began the descent.

The airport is Bajpe, about 30 km from Mangalore, in a mountainous terrain and is considered a difficult to flying airport.