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Status Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date Saturday 9 January 1993
Time 04:08
Type Silhouette image of generic T154 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Tupolev Tu-154B-2
Operator Indian Airlines, lsf Uzbekistan Airways
Registration 85533
MSN 82A533
Year of manufature 1982
Engines Kuznetsov NK-8-2U
Crew Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13
Passengers Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 152
Total occupants Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 165
Aircraft damage Destroyed, written off
Aircraft fate w/o
Location Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)   India
Phase Landing
Nature Passenger - Scheduled
Departure Airport Hyderabad-Begumpet Airport (HYD/VOHY)
Destination Airport Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL/VIDP)
Narrative Because of a pilot strike at Indian Airlines, a Tupolev 154 plane and crew were leased from Uzbekistan Airways. The Tupolev was operating flight IC840 from Hyderabad to Delhi. Visibility was poor at Delhi when the airplane approached runway 28. The aircraft touched down slightly outside the right edge of the runway, collided with some fixed installations on the ground, got airborne again and finally touched down on kutcha ground on the right side of the runway. At this stage the right wing and the tail of the aircraft broke away and it came to rest in an inverted position.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "(a) The failure of the Pilot-in-Command, Capt , to divert to Ahmedabad when he was informed that the RVR on runway 28 was below the minima applicable to his flight. (b) The switching on of landing lights, on the instruction of Capt , at a height of only about ten metres, resulting in the loss of all visual references due to the blinding effect of light reflections from fog. (c) The failure of Capt to carry out a missed approach when visual reference to the runway was lost."

sources

Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1993 (DGAC India)

Safety recommendations