CBI blames pilots for YSR crash

Hyderabad: Human error, more specifically wrong judgement by the pilots, led to the fatal crash of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajashekhar Reddy’s helicopter in September last year, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has concluded after a probe.
The CBI, which submitted its report to the Central and Andhra Pradesh governments on Friday, has ruled out any sabotage or conspiracy angle to the accident.
The CBI, in its report, said that the pilots were late in realizing that the aircraft was losing altitude and they raised an alarm just 18 seconds before the crash.
A detailed study of the Bell-430 VT APG chopper’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) by the CBI led to these findings. The last recorded words on the CVR were: “Go around go around action”.
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Categories: Safety Jul 2010