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Air India flight: Hydraulic, control system failures blamed for altitude drop
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The Phuket–Delhi flight that experienced a “momentary loss in altitude” on August 4, injuring 17 people on board, was preceded by a cascade of failures involving the aircraft’s hydraulic and flight-control systems, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, contradicting the airline’s initial attribution of the incident to turbulence.
The Phuket–Delhi flight that experienced a “momentary loss in altitude” on August 4, injuring 17 people on board, was preceded by a cascade of failures involving the aircraft’s hydraulic and flight-control systems, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter, contradicting the airline’s initial attribution of the incident to turbulence.
Nearly 2.5 hours after taking off from Phuket at 6.56 a.m., Air India flight AI 2379 operated on Airbus A320 neo was hit by a cascade of technical failures at 9.32 a.m. IST, involving the aircraft’s hydraulic and flight-control systems.
The sequence involved low-pressure indications and failures affecting one or two hydraulic systems at a time, with different combinations involving all three systems — an occurrence several pilots described as extremely rare.
