How An Illusion Crashed A Passenger Jet | Air India Express Flight 1344

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Before we get started, We’re so close to hitting 100K subscribers so it would mean a lot to me if you hit that subscribe button! With that lets get to the video! This is the story of Air India express flight 1344, on the 7th of august 2020 a boeing 737 was making its way from dubai to calicut with 190 people on board. As the 737-800 approached calicut the monsoon was in full swing across the entire area, the pilots got their list of diversion airports through the ACARS. Landing at calicut was a challenge in the best of times, the airfield is elevated above the surrounding terrain, thus you have big drops on both ends of the runway. Landing at calicut was so challenging that only captains were allowed to land there. The weather at calicut was quite bad but the weather at cochin and coimbatore were much better so if needed they could divert to there. At 1:19 pm UTC, Chennai upper area control got in contact with flight 1344 letting them know of the conditions at calicut. The runway in use was runway 28 and the visibility was at 1500 meters the winds were a bit concerning at 14 knots. As flight 1344 descended it was handed over to cochin lower area control and finally by the time it was at 12,000 feet it was in contact with calicut ATC. At this point flight 1344 was 52 nautical miles away and the airport was experiencing some mild rain, speaking of the airport the airport had two active aerodrome warnings at the time one was for the thunderstorm and the second one was for the wind, which was now at 17 knots. This meant that the crash fire tenders were already at the predetermined points just in case of an emergency.

As flight 1344 approached the airport it was cleared to descend down to 3600, As the plane lined up with the runway the weather seemed to ease up the visibility was at 2000 meters and the wind had calmed down to 5 knots, but they were having trouble with the windshield wipers on the captains side, The wiper worked for a bit and it stopped working the captain remarked “Wiper is gone, what a day for the wiper to go”. But they carried on with the landing attempt on runway 28, The plane decended but they couldnt see the runway, eventually they hit their minimum descent altitude. Without the runway in sight they decided to go around.

As flight 1344 flew away from the airport, the gear and flaps were retracted and the pilots reprogrammed the flight management computer for attempt number 2, but on the ground air india flight 425 was getting ready to depart to delhi, they wanted to takeoff from runway 10 due to the winds at the time. ATC asked flight 1344 if theyd like to use runway 10 for their next landing attempt, the pilots of flight 1344 check the winds and visibility for runway 10 a few times and eventually they accepted.

At 1:59 pm and 42 seconds UTC, flight 1344 was cleared to descend from 7000 feet, they were cleared for the ILS zulu approach to runway 10, As they headed away from the airport air india flight 425 took off from runway 10, they reported winds of 10 knots. By 2:06 pm UTC the plane was turning inbound intercepting the localizer of runway 10, the crew were again fiddling with the windshield wiper, the windshield wiper worked but it wasn't as fast as they wanted. But soon after flight 1344 intercepted the glideslope and began the descent to runway 10, the crew at this point carried out the landing checklist.

In a matter of minutes the 737 was just 500 feet above the ground, the captain disengaged the autopilot and took manual control of the plane, when he did this the rate of decent began to

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