Another Air India Scare: Plane Drops 900 Feet Just 38 Hours After Ahmedabad Crash | Safety Concerns Rise

Another Air India Scare: The world was shocked after the 12 June Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad resulted to the death of more than 270 people, among them 241 who were on board the plane. When the nation was still recovering the deadly crash the other aircraft belonging to Air- India, and precisely, a wide-body craft almost engaged in a probable gravely accident.

Shortly after its takeoff, a Delhi-Vienna Boeing 777 flight number AI187 was reported to have been receiving some critical warnings within a 38- hour interval following the plane crash at Ahmedabad, as reported by The Times of India.

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Air India flight drops 900 feet

According to comments of the officials who knew about the incident and were cited by the newspaper, the airplane of the airline Air India (Delhi-Vienna) dropped about 900 feet during its first climbing.

It was at this moment that the large body plane that had the registration number VT- ALJ received a stall warning and also two don t sink signals through Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS). The warnings informed the crew about the abnormal decrease in the altitude.

“The aircraft was involved in an inflight occurrence of stick shaker and GPWS caution. Soon after takeoff, stick shaker warning and GPWS don’t sink caution appeared. Stall warning came once and GPWS caution came twice. There was an altitude loss of around 900 feet during climb,” officials quoted by TOI said.

Fortunately, the pilots managed to bring the plane back and it landed safely in Vienna.

"Subsequently, the crew recovered the aircraft and continued the flight to Vienna,” the officials were quoted as saying.

Stick shaker warning is a term that when something is not working as expected, it shakes and makes noise on the control column of the flight deck to invite the attention of the pilot as he or she is reaching a danger.

According to the flight tracking websites data, the accident occurred on June 14 during a poor weather condition as the Delhi-Vienna plane took off at 2.56 am.

This was the time when Delhi was being met by a thunderstorm, TOI reported.

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According to the officials of Air India, the first report of the flight stated that the pilots had received a mention of "stick shaker due to the turbulence after takeoff as opposed to the other events and details."

But upon investigation by authorities of the flight data recording (DFDR) of the B777 which may be the directions given by the DGCA to comply with the safety issues, it was revealed that there were other warning such as GPWS don t sink caution and stall warning in action.

“Upon receipt of the pilot's report, the matter was disclosed to DGCA in accordance with regulations. Subsequently, upon receipt of data from the aircraft's recorders, further investigation was initiated. The pilots have been off-rostered pending the outcome of the investigation,” the spokesperson said.

As per the reports, after the Air India plane crash on 12 June, the notes have been taken by the DGAS of the 14 June incident.

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