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Air India Phuket-Delhi flight logged 9 warnings in a minute before drop
Air India Phuket-Delhi flight logged 9 warnings in a minute before drop
A post-flight maintenance report for Air India's Phuket-Delhi flight AI2379 shows nine warning messages appeared within one minute on August 4, just before the Airbus A320 dropped 360 feet over Odisha. The…
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A post-flight maintenance report for Air India's Phuket-Delhi flight AI2379 shows nine warning messages appeared within one minute on August 4, just before the Airbus A320 dropped 360 feet over Odisha. The warnings included low hydraulic pressure, autopilot disconnections, elevator flight-control faults, and emergency-door sensor alerts. The aircraft later landed safely in Delhi. The incident has been classified as serious and is under investigation by the AAIB and DGCA.
Separately, the captain told investigators he slept for 30-35 minutes during the flight and was thrown to the cockpit floor when the altitude loss occurred. His post-flight drug test came back positive for cannabis. Air India initially called the event turbulence-related. The maintenance log does not confirm whether the warnings directly caused the drop.
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Initial official accounts said turbulence, but a string of hydraulic and flight-control warnings, plus a pilot who dozed off and later tested positive for cannabis, paints a more worrying picture. The DGCA and AAIB now have hard data to pin down cause. The key question: did technical failures trigger the 360-foot drop, or did human error turn a routine fault into a crisis?
Source: livemint.com
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