ACCIDENT DIGEST 2000-21
Date: 17 Jul 2000 08:32:33 -0000
17 JUL 2000 - Boeing 737-2A8 Alliance - Patna (India) - ca 52 (58) + 5
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Date: 17.07.2000
Time: ca 07.15h local
Type: Boeing 737-2A8
Operator: Alliance Air
Registration: VT-EGD
C/n: 22280/671
Year built: 1980
Total airframe hrs: ca 42700 hours
Cycles: ca 49500 cycles
Crew: fatalities 6 /6 on board
Passengers: 45 fatalities / 52 on board
Total: 51 fatalities / 58 on board
Ground casualties:6 fatalities
Location: Patna (India)
Phase: Final Approach
Nature: Scheduled Passenger
Flight: Calcutta IAP - Patna (Flightnumber 7412)
Remarks:
Flight 7412 departed Calcutta around 06.50h for a flight to Patna, Lucknow
and Delhi. Approaching Patna, eyewitnesses said they saw the aircraft
wobble in the sky at a very low altitude for some time
before its left wing was torn off after hitting a neem tree. The plane
then grazed a few single-storied houses in a government residential
housing estate at Aneeshabad and exploded into a ball of fire. The
aircraft broke into four pieces.
Weather reported at 07.30h included temperature 30deg C (86 F), dewpoint
27deg C (80 F); 997mB;
wind calm, haze.
The aircraft in question, VT-EGD, had been involved in an accident 14
years ago. On January 15, 1986, the pilot of flight 529 attempted to land
at Tiruchirapalli in conditions below weather minima. During a
go-around the wing contacted the runway due to an excessive bank angle.
The wing was substantially damaged, but there were no injuries among the 6
crew and 122 passengers.
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Source:
PTI; Reuters; India Today News; US National Weather Service; Tommy Maurer
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Background info:
AIRCRAFT PROFILE BOEING 737
# hull-losses:
B-737-100: 1 hull loss (0 fatal) - 30 built
B-737-200: 80 hull losses (46 fatal) - 1114 built
B-737-300: 10 hull losses (7 fatal) - 1113 built
B-737-400: 4 hull losses (4 fatal) - 486 built
B-737-500: 2 hull losses (1 fatal) - 389 built
B-737-600: 0 hull losses - 37 built
B-737-700: 0 hull losses - 215 built
B-737-800: 0 hull losses - 297 built
total : 97 hull losses (58 fatal) - 389 built
* engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17A
* cabin configuration: 119 economy seats
* ca 27th worst B737 accident
* Last Boeing 737 hull-loss: 19.04.2000 Air Philippines near Davao - 131
fatalities
* Aircraft history:
VT-EGD Indian Airlines 29 MAY 1980 first flight
18 JUN 1980 delivered
Alliance Air JAN 1997 transferred
OPERATOR PROFILE ALLIANCE AIR
* Alliance Air (Airline Allied Services Ltd.- subsidiary of Indian
Airlines)
* website: http://www.allianceair-india.com/
* founded: 1996
* 2nd Alliance hull-loss accident
AIRPORT PROFILE PATNA
* Patna
* ICAO/IATA code: VEPT / PAT
* Latitude: 25° 36' North; 85° 6' East
* Elevation: 197ft / 60m
COUNTRY PROFILE INDIA
* last fatal airliner accident in India 30.07.1998 (Dornier 228 Alliance
Air at Kochi- 6 + 2 fatalities)
* 12th worst airliner accident in India
* India is rated Category 1 (meeting ICAO standards) in FAA's
International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)
(http://www.dot.gov/affairs/1997/apa12997.htm)
