Air India Express Flight 812
VT-AXV, the accident aircraft
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 22 May 2010 |
| Summary | Runway overrun due to pilot error. |
| Site | Beyond runway 24 at Mangalore International Airport 12°56′48″N 074°52′25″E / 12.94667°N 74.87361°ECoordinates: 12°56′48″N 074°52′25″E / 12.94667°N 74.87361°E |
| Passengers | 160 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 158 |
| Injuries (non-fatal) | 8 |
| Survivors | 8 |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-8HG(SPF) |
| Aircraft name | Victoria Memorial |
| Operator | Air India Express |
| Registration | VT-AXV |
| Flight origin | Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates |
| Destination | Mangalore International Airport, India |
 Photos of VT-AXV at Airliners.net
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Air India Express Flight 812 was a scheduled passenger service from Dubai to Mangalore, which, at around 06:30 IST on 22 May 2010, overshot the runway on landing, fell over a cliff, and caught fire, spreading wreckage across the surrounding hillside. Of the 160 passengers and six crew members on board, only eight passengers survived.
With its 158 fatalities, the accident was the third deadliest aviation disaster in India, after the 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, which killed 349, and the 1978 crash of Air India Flight 855, which killed 213. It marked the first major Indian aviation accident since the July 2000 crash of Alliance Air Flight 7412 in Patna. The accident is the deadliest crash of a 737 aircraft (all series) and the eighth hull loss of a Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The crash caused the highest number of aviation fatalities in 2010 and was the second of the year to involve a 737-800. It was the second time that an aircraft had overshot a runway at Mangalore.
The accident involved a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, one of Boeing's 737 Next Generation series, with aircraft registration VT–AXV and manufacturer's serial number 36333, line number 2481. The aircraft first flew on 20 December 2007 with the Boeing test registration N1787B and was delivered on 18 January 2008. Commanded by Captain Zlatko Glušica, the remaining crew consisted of first officer Harbinder Singh Ahluwalia and four flight attendants. Glušica (a former employee of Jat Airways of Serbia), aged 55, a British and Serbian national with over 10,000 hours of flying and over 7,500 hours of command experience, and Ahluwalia (a former employee of Jet Airways who joined Air India Express in April 2009) were both killed in the incident. Both pilots were based in Mangalore.
The flight departed Dubai International Airport at 01:06 GST (21:06 UTC). It crashed upon landing at Mangalore International Airport at 06:05 IST (00:35 UTC). Situated in a hilly area, the airport is one of seven Indian airports designated as a "critical airfield" by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). DGCA rules at critical airfields prohibit "supervised take offs and landings", so that only the captain (not the first officer) may pilot an aircraft during take-off and landing. The airport is one of three airports in India having table top runways (the others being Kozhikode and Lengpui) that require heightened awareness and a very precise landing approach.
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