Most recently she covered breaking news for The Age, and before that for The Australian in Melbourne. During the flight, he was carrying out the duties of both the co-pilot and the check pilot.Before Flight 605, Captain Gopujkar was involved in a taxiing incident in Cochin92 people were killed in the crash, including Captain Gopujkar and Captain Fernandez. "It looked like it disappeared and assumed it must have got back under control, I thought if it had crashed I would have seen flames or something like that. When the plane was only 135 ft from the ground, Captain Fernandez suddenly realized the gravity of the situation and exclaimed: “Hey, we’re going down!”. The aircraft did lift from the ground, however, it failed to clear a 12-ft embankment and crashed. news.com.au February 20, 2020 5:13am. At 01:40 pm local time, the aircraft display indicated that the plane’s altitude had been just under 5000 feet and its approach path was 600 ft higher than the normal glide path.Captain Fernandez noticed this and requested for a Since the plane was a little higher than the normal glide path, Captain Fernandez asked for a higher descent rate of 1000 ft/min, instead of the normal rate of 700 ft/min. Despite the impending disaster, the crew of Flight 605 seemed to not be aware of it.The plane's radio altimeter then sounded: "400 ft". Even when Gopujkar tried to shut his director off, it didn't respond. 1.12pm: MN Reddi, Karnataka DG Police, says one of the IAF pilots is suspected to have died in the air crash. Authorities will investigate whether poor visibility affected the pilots’ actions.Both planes were flying with student pilots and veteran instructors on board. Captain Gopujkar, himself stunned now, could only respond with “Oh, shit!” Those were his last recorded words. The bodies of all four victims, who have not yet been identified, were found inside the wrecked planes.One plane, which took off from Mangalore Airport, had been flying for about three minutes and was gaining height when the collision happened. They further failed to advance the throttles or pull up even after the radio altitude call-outs, as the aircraft approached landing.After the crash, the Indian investigation committee issued 62 recommendations to the The crash drew criticism among the Indian Commercial Pilot Association (ICPA) which claimed that the Airbus A320 had severe flaws. They claimed that the aircraft's systems were too confusing and that the crew of Flight 605 was struggling to avert the crash.Flight 605 took off from Bombay Airport at 11:58 local time after an hour delay.
The aircraft was an At 12:53 local time, Flight 605's radar plot appeared on Bangalore's radar. Indian Airlines Flight 605 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Mumbai to Bengaluru. Captain Gopujkar had a total flying experience of 10,340 hours, of which 255 hours were on the Airbus A320. Fernandez became the co-pilot of an Airbus A320 in 1989. He joined Indian Airlines in 1969 and was employed as a co-pilot on a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 from 1971–1981, later flying the plane as a Captain. The surviving cabin crew opened the emergency door on the airplane and began to evacuate the survivors. Realizing that the aircraft had regained its normal glide path, Captain Gopujkar reported at 01:42 that he had now selected a “700 ft rate of descent”. February 19, 2020 — 12.29pm.
A portable radio transmitter was available for communication between the tower and the aerodrome fire station, but was not serviceable on the day of the accident.Flight 605 carried 139 passengers and 7 crew members, consisting of 2 cockpit crew and 5 cabin crew. Natalie Brown. "Planes do practice manoeuvres around here all the time but I thought that seems to be going a bit lower than normal. However, this action was too late. Fernandez had a total flying experience of 9,307 hours, of which 68 hours were spent on the Airbus A320.According to the report, Captain Fernandez was under supervision as he was undergoing the first of 10 route checks required for qualification to Captain. People would notice this since the engines seem to turn silent, and the plane appears to be sinking bit by bit.The crew of Flight 605 disengaged the autopilot when sighting the runway of Bangalore Airport.
Flight 605 was asked by Bangalore Radar to turn right and make a visual approach to Runway 09. And as the altimeter called out “300 ft”, Captain Gopujkar asked: “You want flight directors off now?”. 92 people, consisting of 88 passengers and 4 crew, perished in the crash, while 54 survived, all with injuries. So, instead of inputting an order for a 700 ft rate of descent to the Airbus A320, he made an order to put the aircraft on an altitude of 700 ft.The vertical speed knob and the altitude knob are located next to each other and have a similar design. Investigators stated that if this action had been taken 2 seconds earlier, the disaster could have been averted.The High Court of Karnataka reported that the accident was caused by the pilots failing to realize the gravity of the situation and failing to respond by immediately advancing the throttles, even after the radio altitude callouts of “Four Hundred,” “Three Hundred” and “Two Hundred” feet, despite knowing that the plane was in idle/open descent mode.India's investigative team concluded that pilot error was the cause of the accident, which was supported by The ICPA stated that the senior Captain of the flight, Captain Gopujkar, wouldn't have made the series of mistakes and stated that there was no proof that he made the faulty setting since the flight data recorder didn't record such mistakes.