Thursday, August 25, 2016

Faulty roster led to engineer's death: Air India

New Delhi: Faulty roster, which caused pilots of a delayed incoming flight to rush to operate another aircraft, led to the death of Air India engineer Ravi Subramanian on December 16 last year, according to a probe report by the airline. Subramanian died after he was sucked inside the engine of an AI aircraft that had begun taxiing to fly from Mumbai to Hyderabad.
The report, which has been submitted to the Union aviation ministry, lists the sequence of events.
According to the report, Mumbai-Hyderabad flight was scheduled to depart at 7.30pm, but the two pilots assigned to fly the aircraft were running late as they were operating a Rajkot-Mumbai flight which was scheduled to land at 8.10pm. The Rajkot-Mumbai flight eventually landed at 8.35pm, further delaying the availability of crew.
As a result, the pilots were in a hurry to reach the other plane after landing. They literally jumped off one plane and ran to the other. "The crew took a jeep and rushed to bay V28L to operate AI 619 Mumbai-Hyderabad. Pilots reached cockpit at 8.38pm. Pushback commenced at 8.45pm," says the report, while describing the tearing hurry in which things were happening that fateful evening.
When the aircraft started taxiing, the pilots did not realise that four ground personnel -including Subramanian -were still near the nose of the plane. While the other three saw the plane moving and managed to run away to safety , Subramanian had his back to the plane, and hence, got sucked into the engine. The report contradicts the version told by the flight's co-pilot that the ground personnel had given him the clearance to start taxiing by showing a thumbs up.
25/08/16 Times of India

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