INDIA: INDIAN CIVIL AVIATION MINISTRY OFFICIAL READS OUT TRANSCRIPT OF CRASHES AIRCRAFT PILOTS' FINAL CONVERSATIONS

Record ID: 319967

  • Title: INDIA: INDIAN CIVIL AVIATION MINISTRY OFFICIAL READS OUT TRANSCRIPT OF CRASHES AIRCRAFT PILOTS' FINAL CONVERSATIONS
  • Date: 13th November 1996
  • Summary: CHARKHI DADRI, HARYANA AND NEW DELHI, INDIA (NOVEMBER 13, 1996, 1996)(RTV - ACCESS ALL) CHARKHI DADRI, HARYANA STATE 1. LV MILITARY PERSONNEL NEAR WRECKAGE (4 SHOTS) 0.20 2. LV SAUDI BOEING WRECKAGE/ MORE OF MILITARY (4 SHOTS) 0.38 3. LV YOGESH CHANDRA, THE TOP CIVIL SERVANT AT INDIA'S CIVIL AVIATION MINISTRY AT PRESS CONFE
  • Embargoed: 28th November 1996 12:00
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  • Location: CHARKHI DADRI, HARYANA, INDIA
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  • Country: India
  • Reuters ID: LVA3QUW8I0SKLO9E77SNN4J8EFO2
  • Story Text: INTRO: Searchers recovered the "black boxes" that should reveal what caused the world's worst mid-air collision near New Delhi on Tuesday. India has said it has ruled out the possibilities that outdated equipment or language problems could have caused the collision in which some 350 people were killed.

    The flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the two planes involved in the world's worst mid-air collision were picked out of the debris of the crash sites on Wednesday (November 13).

    There were no survivors among the 312 people aboard a Saudi Arabia Airlines Boeing 747 that had just taken off from New Delhi on Tuesday evening or among the 37 people on a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 freighter that was preparing to land.

    Indian aviation officials said they would not guess what went wrong, but said the problem was not associated with language or outdated equipment.

    India has said it will appoint a high court judge to investigate the collision.

    Speculation on the cause of the collision had ranged from inadequate equipment at New Delhi airport to pilot misunderstanding of instructions from ground controllers.

    But aviation officials said the transcript of the final exchange between the pilots of the two airliners and the ground controllers showed that both pilots had understood the ground instructions clearly.

    Yogesh Chandra, an Indian Civil Aviation Ministry official read out the transcript of the final conversation at a news conference between the pilots of the both planes.

    He said the transcript of the final conversations between the pilots and ground control showed both understood their instructions.

    Chandra refused comment on other possible causes raised by experts, including speculation the pilot of the KazAir plane could have misconverted the altitude instructions he was given in feet, the international norm.


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