Indigo aircraft damaged due to storm
New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA said on Friday that the Indigo flight pilot from the national capital Delhi to Srinagar on Wednesday sought permission to enter Pakistan airspace to avoid bad weather, but the request was rejected. Giving detailed information about the incident, the DGCA said that no passenger in the aircraft has suffered any injury. The nose of the aircraft has been damaged due to the storm. The DGCA is investigating the incident of the aircraft being hit by bad weather.
DGCA gave detailed information
The DGCA said that according to the statement of the crew member, the pilot had requested the Northern Control (IAF) of the Air Force to go to the left (international border) due to bad weather, but was not approved. The DGCA said that the crew later approached Lahore to enter Pakistan airspace to avoid bad weather, but was also rejected.
The DGCA said that the crew member tried to return in the beginning but due to the storm and cloud they decided to move forward in bad weather. After this, he faced hailstorm and severe bad weather. The pilot decided to move in the same direction from the smallest route towards Srinagar to avoid bad weather.
Such a warning issued
The aviation regulator said that during the storm, ‘Angle of Attack Fault’, ‘Alternative Law Protection Lost’, ‘Backup Speed Scale Unrelative’ were released. The ‘Angle of Attack Fault’ is a sign of malfunction in the system responsible for measuring and interpreting the angle between the wings and air of the aircraft. ‘Alternative Law Protection Lost’ means the flight control law that reflects many systems or sensors malfunctions while ‘backup speed scale is a system used in airbus aircraft’ airbus aircraft, which helps the pilots to maintain safe flight speeds in the event of disturbances in air growth signal.
Strong winds caused a malfunction in the aircraft’s ‘autopylot’ (automatic mode) and there were extensive changes in the speed of the aircraft. As a result, the maximum operational speed/maximum operational Mac (VMO/MMO) warnings and repeated stay warned began to be released. The DGCA said the landing rate of the aircraft reached 8,500 FPM (foot per minute) and the crew flew the aircraft by ‘manual’ until he came out of hailstorm. After starting all the checklist activities, the crew declared Srinagar ATC as ‘PAN PAN’ and requested for ‘radar vector’ and rescued the aircraft with general operation of ‘Auto Thrust’. Let us know that the ‘PAN PAN’ is derived from the French word ‘pan’, which means failure or difficulty. Typically, ‘PAN PAN’ is used in terms of an emergency.
Indian Air Force made safe landing
At the same time, the Indian Air Force has confirmed that Lahore ATC refused to allow IndiGo flight 6E 214 to use Pakistan airspace. After this, the flight was given help to safe landing in Srinagar airspace. On behalf of the Air Force, it has been said that the Indian Northern Area Control gave some advice to the pilot and the aircraft was turned towards Srinagar by an alternative route. From here, the Air Force took control of control and safe landing was made by updating real time control vector and ground speed.
Input-PTI
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