Mangaluru: Pilot’s presence of mind helped avert tragedy of Doha-bound plane


Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)

Mangaluru, Sep 23: If the pilot had not applied technical expertise and presence of mind, it was possible that Air India Express IX 821 that was carrying over 173 passengers to Doha would have crashed. The passengers and crew have still not come out from the shock.

The flight that took off for Doha on Thursday evening, September 21, had made emergency landing in Mangaluru due to major technical failure within 45 minutes of its take-off.

The pilot with confidence had landed the aircraft even though it was running on a single engine. The act has received appreciation from all circles.

The pilot had sent emergency message to the airport ATS centre that an engine had stopped working within half an hour of take-off. There was anxiety in the airport after the message. Officials passed on the message to Bajpe police station and other concerned.

Bajpe police had received a message at about 6.20 pm that the plane will make emergency landing. Police had immediately rushed to the airport.

Emergency preparations had started in the airport soon after the message spread that the aircraft will make emergency landing. It was dangerous to land such a large plane with 173 passengers, luggage and staff when an engine gave up. The landing depends on the experience and technical knowledge of the pilot in such situation.

The pilot Athish Shinge hailing from Mumbai has fulfilled the task intelligently and with utmost care, experts agree without any arguments.

A retired wing commander of the Indian air force has blamed Air India for the failure. A plane should have a checklist before takeoff. If such tests are not done, there can be risks, he said.

The passengers in the aircraft had informed their relatives before emergency landing. Therefore some of their relatives who had come to see them off had returned to the airport.

The real reason for the technical failure is yet to be known. The aircraft has been kept in the airport for want of new engine which has to come from Thiruvananthapuram.

It is now revealed that when the aircraft was about to land finally, there was technical failure again as a wrong signal appeared instead of green signal at the airport which created more panic.

  

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  • Rajen Gopi, Calicut

    Mon, Sep 25 2017

    How did the passengers call their relatives when the aircraft was in the air.
    As far as I know these aircraft are designed to fly on single engine in case of emergency.

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  • Laxmi, Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 24 2017

    Thank you pilot.. u saved the life of my dear sis and my nephew.. and of all other passengers.. ..i still cant imagine what all of them would have gone thru during this journey.. my big salute to you.. god bless!!

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  • J.F.D SOUZA, Attavar, Mangalore

    Sun, Sep 24 2017

    In addition to appreciations he deserves reward and honour from the Govt. for saving lives of 173 passengers.

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  • dinesh shetty, Nitte/Dubai

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    God Bless "TULUNADU" appreciated the Pilots for their skills /technical expertise and successful task saving the Lives of many.

    AirIndia should carry a depth route cause analysis for the incident and recommend the brave captains for recognition .

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  • k b r, mangala uru

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    since it is international flight, lot of passengers would be there from neighbouring districts such as Udupi, shimoga, kodagu etc. and also lot of keralites too.

    all them will be ever grateful to this pilot...

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  • Rajesh Shetty, Dubai

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Thanks to the pilot and god for saving all the lives..
    My cousin was in the same flight .. When the panic started my cousin and his family started crying.. however those muslims kept quiet started chanting some slogans like "ashadu muhamma illa alla"... Looking at their confidence most of other passengers also started chanting the same ...
    He says it was a magic mantra they had which saved all of us... It taught a lesson of humanity and all started believing in god. ...
    Lets hope and pray for the unity of human being and its an example we all respect each other religion and live peacefully...

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  • Shyder, Kumta

    Sun, Oct 08 2017

    Brother you are honest. And Honestly you’re a rare person.

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  • J.F.D SOUZA, Attavar, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Engine failure or technical failure a big disaster would have happened and it would have been again a big second tragedy in Bajpe Airport. But the question here is usually the mechanic will check up the engines and after giving ok signal the plane starts its journey. So whether the engine of the plane got checked by the mechanic? For such a small mistake all the 173 passengers would have lost their precious lives. This should be investigated.

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  • sri_elder, Karkala

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Today or tomorrow Mangalore should go ahead with brand new airport.
    Risk can be anything...
    Last paragraph says everything. Wrong signal appeared instead of green signal.
    He had only one chance to land perfectly. He cannot go circling and come back again.

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  • sri_elder, Karkala

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Suppose you cannot expand runway at one side they you look at other (touch down) side. I mean you should expand runway such away that you need to touch down 1km early.

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  • Abby, Kadri

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Now this is the problem of aircraft.... Why does mangalore airport come to picture..

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  • sri_elder, Karkala

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    One expert said , for emergency landing they need longer runway

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  • Kiran D Souza, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    It is his duty, stop gloryfying... If someone unknown did it it's worth if gloryfying.

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  • A.Rahman, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Only because of on board passengers sincere prayer and almighty;God;Creaters blessings saved all on board passenders life.
    Appreciate passengers courage

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  • Chetan, Mangalore/Calgary

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    God save India. God save Air India.

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  • Chetan, Mangalore/Calgary

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    God save India. God save Air India.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    AIR India must recommend his name for National Award. He deserved it.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Air India must recommend his service to Central Govt to honour him. And it should be a motivation to all.

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  • sri_elder, Karkala

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Any airplane can fail and passenger needs to understand the risk. After all they are mechanical components...

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  • Evans Christopher Sumitra, Udupi/ New York, USA.

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    My big salute to Captain Ashish Singh, the pilot Air India Express IX 821, who averted a deadly tragedy of Doha bound plane from Mangaluru. His expert technical knowledge and presence of mind made him land the plane without any loss of lives.

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Congrats to the pilot who saved the life of many passengers

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  • jaimini p.b., manipal

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Congrats lot Ashish Singh...Indian Pilots are the Best one...proved once again.

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  • Francis Saldanha, Bahrain

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Pilot Ashish Singh and crew, hats off to you for handling a difficult and life-saving act. Thank God! all are safe. A big disaster has been averted.

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  • Prinson, Santhekatte- Kallianpur/Doha- Qatar

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    His name is Athish Shinge.... he is supposed to be Maharashtrian... you made him Punjabi :)... Anyways, he deserve bravery award... Hope his efforts are recognized by our Government.

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  • I wish I was there, Bahrain

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    To all the passengers on this Aircraft please remember to say THANK YOU to this Pilot for the extraordinary gift of a new second life, and be thankful to the faithful God...

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  • hemkumar, vijayawada

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Modi is responsible for this.. he should resign with immediate effext

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  • Peter, Udupi

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Original 916 carat 56" chest. Hats off to you Sir.

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  • Jayaram, Kinnigoli

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Yes. Good to see original one. We were fed up by seeing fake one.

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  • Rob Stan, Udupi / US

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Although emergency landing with one engine requires technical expertise & presence of mind of the pilot it's not dangerous except for the fact that there is no redundant engine for the single engine on which aircraft is powered on. Nowadays there are aircraft's like Dreamliners, 777 & A350 XWB which have an ETOPS rating of 330 minutes, which means they can be away from the closest airport for emergency landing by 330 minutes. Here it was just a case of 45 minutes. But it's always better not to have table top airport in this case.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    We are grateful to the Almighty ...

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  • Sense, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    This time you spared Modi ..What happened?

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  • Peter, Udupi

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    R a salesman?. If not you have a good skill of that

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  • Jayaram, Kinnigoli

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    You hit the nail.

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  • Sense, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Thank you. I can do a little bit of servicing too ... let me know ..just a yell is enough.

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  • Amith, USA

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    YES INDEED!!!!!! He is the "PANWATI" for India!!!!!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    I get greater responses than the words I Write ...

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  • Sense, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 23 2017

    Panwathi?How come ..you are superstitious .I thought englishmen and their newgen cannot be superstitious ?

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