Individually Owned: 150,657
Corporate Owned: 137,281
Patna India Airport
Aircraft Accident/Incident Report
Patna India
Monday, July 17, 2000 1:04 UTC
NTSB Narrative Summary Released at Completion of Accident
On July 17, 2000, an Alliance Air Boeing 737-200, registration VT-EGD, operating as flight CD- 7412 on a scheduled passenger flight from Calcutta, West Bengal to Delhi via Patna & Lucknow crashed on approach to Patna. The aircraft crashed approximately 1 kilometer southeast of the runway 25 threshold shortly after the crew commenced a 360 degree turn to lose altitude during the approach.
At the time of crash, there were 52 passengers and a crew of six including two pilots and four airhostesses. 49 passengers and all six crewmembers received fatal injuries as a result of the impact. Four passengers received serious injuries. Five occupants of the houses received fatal injuries and five others were seriously injured. The aircraft was completely destroyed due to post impact fire. The investigation was conducted under authority of the Government of India.
On March 31, 2001, the investigation team posted a final report on the Internet at http://civilaviation.nic.in/coi-fin/page1.htm
The investigation determined that the cause of the accident was
" loss of control of the aircraft due to human error (air crew). The crew had not followed the correct approach procedure which resulted in the aircraft being high on approach. They had kept the engines at idle thrust and allowed the airspeed to reduce to a lower than normally permissible value on approach. They them maneuvered the aircraft with high pitch attitude and executed rapid roll reversals. This resulted in actuation of the stick shaker stall warning indicating an approaching stall. At this stage, the crew initiated a Go Around procedure instead of Approach to Stall Recovery procedure resulting in actual stall of the aircraft, loss of control and subsequent impact with the ground."
NTSB Probable Cause Narrative
Not Yet Reported
Event Information
| Type of Event | Accident |
| Event Date | 7/17/2000 |
| Event Day of the Week | Monday |
| Time of Event | 104 |
| Event Time Zone | Coordinated Universal Time? Same as GMT |
| Event City | PATNA |
| Event State | -- |
| Event Country | INDIA |
| Zipcode of the event site | -- |
| Event Date Year | 2000 |
| Event Date Month | 7 |
| MidAir Collision Indicator | No |
| On Ground Collision occurred ? | No |
| Event Location Latitude | -- |
| Event Location Longitude | -- |
| Event Location Airport | Patna India |
| Event Location Nearest Airport ID | -- |
| Indicates whether the acc/inc occurred off or on an airport | Off Airport/Airstrip |
| Distance from airport in statute miles | 0.5 |
| Degrees magnetic from airport | 117 |
| Airport Elevation | -- |
| Weather Briefing Completeness | Unknown |
| Investigator's weather source | Weather Observation Facility |
| Time of the weather observation | 151 Coordinated Universal Time? Same as GMT |
| Direction of event from weather observation facility (degrees) | 0 |
| Weather Observation Facility ID | -- |
| Elevation of weather observation facility | 0 |
| Distance of event from weather observation facility (units?) | 0 |
| Time Zone of the weather observation | UTC |
| Lighting Conditions | Not Reported |
| Lowest Ceiling Height | 25000 |
| Lowest Non-Ceiling Height | 1500 |
| Sky/Lowest/Cloud Conditions | Scattered |
| Sky Condition for Lowest Ceiling | Broken |
| Visibility Runway Visual Range (Feet) | 0 |
| Visibility Runway Visual Value (Statute Miles) | 0 |
| Visibility (Statute Miles) | 2 |
| Air Temperature at event time (in degrees celsius) | 30 |
| Dew Point at event time (in degress fahrenheit) | 27 |
| Wind Direction (degrees magnetic) | 0 |
| Variable Wind Indicator | Wind direction could be determined |
| Wind Speed (knots) | -- |
| Wind Velocity Indicator | Calm |
| Wind Gust Indicator | Not Gusting |
| Wind Gust (knots) | -- |
| Altimeter Setting at event time (in. Hg) | 29.44 |
| Density Altitude (feet) | -- |
| Intensity of Precipitation | -- |
| METAR weather report | -- |
| Event Highest Injury | Fatal |
| On Ground, Fatal Injuries | 5 |
| On Ground, Minor Injuries | 0 |
| On Ground, Serious Injuries | 5 |
| Injury Total Fatal | 60 |
| Injury Total Minor | 1 |
| Injury Total None | -- |
| Injury Total Serious | 10 |
| Injury Total All | 71 |
| Investigating Agency | Foreign |
| NTSB Docket Number (internal use) | 0 |
| NTSB Notification Source | Boeing |
| NTSB Notification Date | Jul 17 2000 12:00AM |
| NTSB Notification Time | 0 |
| Fiche Number and/or location -used to find docket information | -- |
| Date of most recent change to record | Aug 22 2003 4:59PM |
| User who most recently changed record | HAUT |
| Basic weather conditions | Instrument Meteorological Cond |
| FAA District Office | -- |
Aircraft Involved |
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|---|---|
Aircraft #1 |
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| Aircraft Registration Number | -- |
| NTSB Number | DCA00WA076 |
| Missing Aircraft Indicator | N |
| Federal Aviation Reg. Part | Non-U.S., Commercial |
| Type of Flight Plan filed | Unknown |
| Flight plan Was Activated? | No |
| Damage | Destroyed |
| Aircraft Fire | Ground |
| Aircraft Explosion | -- |
| Aircraft Manufacturer's Full Name | Boeing |
| Aircraft Model | 737-200 |
| Aircraft Series Identifier | 737-200 |
| Aircraft Serial Number | 22280 |
| Certified Max Gross Weight | 115250 |
| Aircraft Category | Airplane |
| Aircraft Registration Class | Foreign Reg./Foreign Soil |
| Aircraft is a homebuilt? | No |
| Flight Crew Seats | -- |
| Cabin Crew Seats | -- |
| Passenger Seats | -- |
| Total number of seats on the aircraft | 119 |
| Number of Engines | 2 |
| Fixed gear or retractable gear | Retractable |
| Aircraft, Type of Last Inspection | Continuous Airworthiness |
| Date of Last Inspection | -- |
| Airframe hours since last inspection | -- |
| Airframe Hours | 44087 |
| ELT Installed | Unknown |
| ELT Activated | Unknown |
| ELT Aided Location of Event Site | Unknown |
| ELT Type | -- |
| Aircraft Owner Name | Indian Airlines Ltd |
| Aircraft Owner Street Address | -- |
| Aircraft Owner City | New Delhi |
| Aircraft Owner State | -- |
| Aircraft Owner Country | IN |
| Aircraft Owner Zipcode | -- |
| Operator is an individual? | No |
| Operator Name | -- |
| Operator Same as Owner? | No |
| Operator Is Doing Business As | -- |
| Operator Address Same as Owner? | No |
| Operator Street Address | -- |
| Operator City | NEW DELHI |
| Operator State | -- |
| Operator Country | IN |
| Operator Zip code | -- |
| Operator Code | -- |
| Owner has at least one certificate | None |
| Other Operator of large aircraft? | -- |
| Certified for Part 133 or 137 Operation | -- |
| Operator Certificate Number | -- |
| Indicates whether an air carrier operation was scheduled or not | Scheduled |
| Indicates Domestic or International Flight | Domestic |
| Operator carrying Pax/Cargo/Mail | Passenger Only |
| Type of Flying (Per_Bus / Primary) | -- |
| Second Pilot on Board | Yes |
| Departure Point Same as Event | No |
| Departure Airport Code | -- |
| Departure City | CALCUTTA |
| Departure State | -- |
| Departure Country | IN |
| Departure Time | 620 |
| Departure Time Zone | HST |
| Destination Same as Local Flt | -- |
| Destination Airport Code | -- |
| Destination City | New Delhi |
| Destination State | -- |
| Destination Country | IN |
| Specific Phase of Flight | -- |
| Report sent to ICAO? | -- |
| Evacuation occurred | No |
| Date of most recent change to record | Aug 22 2003 4:59PM |
| User who most recently changed record | HAUT |
| Since inspection or accident | Time of Accident |
| Event Location Runway Number and Location | 25 |
| Runway Length | 6858 |
| Runway Width | 138 |
| Sight Seeing flight | No |
| Air Medical Flight | No |
| Medical Flight | -- |