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1AIR CARRIERSOn 22nd May 2010, the Air India Express Flight 812 bound from Dubai to Mangaloreovershot the runway while landing and hit the airport boundary fence and fell into the gorge. Dueto error in planning descent profile properly, the incident occurred and it resulted in massivewreckage as the airline caught fire and 152 passengers and all 6 crew members died in theaccident. Only 8 people survived the accident. Investigations also revealed that there was no signof bird strike nor any sabotage (Belgaunkar, Govind). In terms of severity, the accident was thethird deadliest aviation accident in India. The investigation reports on the case revealed thatsafety violation was the main cause of accident as plane landed 610 m beyond the actual touchdown point. The accident could have been prevented if the pilot had applied manual braking attouchdown and did not attempted long landing. Other safety violations that occurred was thatflight captain was in prolonged sleep during the flight leading to sleep inertia and impairedjudgment. Secondly, the absence of the Mangalore Area Control Radar also contributed to theaccident (Indian Air Force). Although passenger aircraft have strict safety requirement, however still safety provisionsis violated by many airlines. This might occur due to ambiguity in giving instructions to the crewmembers regarding flight safety, crew resource management and poor judgment in emergencycases. There is less focus on taking proactive measures to address flight safety related issues too(Maurino, Daniel et al). Having an independent safety organization could have minimized suchincidents. Link: http://dgca.nic.in/accident/reports/VT-AXV.pdf

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