14 February 1990 - Indian Airlines 605 Flight IC605 took off from Mumbai (Bombay) at 11.58h for a flight to Bangalore. At 12.25h Bangalore approach was contacted and prevailing weather at Bangalore was passed on to the crew (wind variable 5kts, visibility 10km, clouds 2 octa 2000ft, temp 27deg, QNH 1018). At 12.44h the aircraft was cleared to descend to FL110. Reaching FL110, vectors were given for a visual runway 9 approach. On final approach, the aircraft descended well below the normal approach profile and kept descending until it struck the boundaries of the Karnataka Golf Club (2300ft short of the runway and 200ft right of the extended centerline. The aircraft rolled for 80ft and lifted off again for about 230ft and came down again on the 17th green of the golf course. The landing gear wheels dug into the ground and the aircraft impacted a 12ft high embankment, causing the gears and engines to be sheared off. The aircraft continued over the embankment and came to rest in a grassy, marshy and rocky area.
ATC Air Traffic Control CP Check Pilot PF Pilot Flying * Unidentifiable word or words # Expletive ? Unsure of origin [] Editorial insertion
1300:42 CP Runway in sight (Autopilot disconnect "cricket" sound three times) 1300:46 ATC Resume own navigation No. 1. Contact tower 123.5 1300:48 PF Flap 4 1300:51 CP 123.5, thank you, good day CP There she is. PF OK, landing checks CP Coming, changing to tower. PF OK 1301:08 CP Bangalore tower India 605, good morning. 1301:11 ATC Good morning, report short finals. 1301:13 CP Roger 1301:20 PF Landing checks completed? CP Negative, I will give you at 1,400 AGL. 1301:23 PF OK. (Coughing sound thrice.) I am sorry. 1301:36 CP Speed, alt star. 1301:40 CP Speed, alt star. PF OK, give me go around. CP Go around you want? 1301:48 PF 6,000. CP Or you want vertical speed. 1301:54 PF Vertical speed. CP How much? 1301:56 PF Thousand. CP Thousand. 1302:08 CP Tower, India 605, confirm cleared to land? PF Go around, 6,000. 1302:11 ATC 605, report short finals. 1302:13 CP We are short finals. 1302:17 ATC Roger, cleared to land. 1302:19 CP Cleared to land, 605. PF OK, landing checks. 1302:23 CP OK, landing gear is down, three greens, release signs are on, spoilers are armed, flaps are full, landing checks are complete. 1302:34 CP Crew at your stations for landing. 1302:42 PF OK, 700 feet rate of descent. CP Missed approach is ... 1302:49 (RA [radio altimeter] call out "four hundred"). 1302:53 CP You are descending on idle open descend ha, all this time. (RA call out "three hundred"). 1302:56 CP You want the flight directors off now? 302:57 PF Yes PF OK, I already put it off. 1303:00 CP But you did not put off mine. 1303:03 (RA call out "two hundred"). 1303:07 CP You are on the autopilot still? 1303:09 PF No CP It's off. 1303:10 PF Hey, we are going down. 1303:11 CP O shit. (RA callout "one hundred"). PF Captain. 1303:12 PF Captain still going. 1303:13 (Sink rate) 1303:14 (Chime) 1303:15 (Sink rate warning and RA call out "fifty"). 1303:16 (Sind rate warning and RA call out "ten"). 1303:17 (Crash sounds) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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