MUMBAI: The accident involving an Air India Express aircraft that took off from Trichy for Dubai with a lacerated belly occurred due events set into motion by a sudden and unexpected reclining of commander’s seat, according to the final investigation report released recently by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). The reclined seat had the commander inadvertently move back the thrust levers.
The aircraft consumed the full length of the runway, rolled past the paved surface surface and its tail strike the soft ground on lift off. It did a sluggish climb, downed antennas of a ground-based navigation aid, hit the airport boundary wall and sustained a gaping belly wound. The aircraft functioned satisfactorily and the pilots of flight IX-611 of October 12, 2018, with 130 passengers on board, continued their journey, the report said. The flight had reached Muscat airspace when Air India Express team instructed the pilots to divert the flight to Mumbai where it landed safe
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