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Air India Phuket flight logged nine warnings in a minute
Hindustan Times··13 Aug
A post-flight log from Air India flight AI2379 on August 4 shows nine warning messages within one minute as the Airbus A320, VT-EXO, lost about 300 feet over Odisha. Alerts covered low pressure in green, blue and yellow hydraulic systems, an autopilot disconnect and an elevator fault. Twenty passengers and four crew were injured; the aircraft later landed in Delhi.
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What It Means For You
- Passengers on AI2379 who were among the 24 injured can follow the AAIB serious-incident inquiry, which will examine both the altitude drop and the warning log.
- Future Phuket-Delhi travellers can note the aircraft stabilised after the event and landed in Delhi; the investigation is about why the drop and alerts occurred, not a second emergency landing.
- Anyone reading drug-test headlines should treat a reported confirmatory cannabis result as one investigative fact, not a finding that it caused the 300-foot altitude loss.
What's Happening
- On August 4 AI2379, Airbus A320 VT-EXO from Phuket to Delhi, lost about 300 feet during cruise after crossing the Odisha coast.
- A Centralised Fault Display System log seen by Hindustan Times listed nine warnings in one minute at 9.32 am IST, including hydraulic low pressure, autopilot disconnect and an elevator fault.
- The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau classified the event as a serious incident; 20 passengers and four cabin crew were injured.
Why Three Hydraulic Systems Matter on an A320
- An A320 has green, blue and yellow hydraulic circuits so that no single leak should remove all flight-control power; warnings on all three in one minute are why investigators are asking whether the event was real or indicated.
- A second autopilot disconnect at 10.52 am was logged without hydraulic warnings, which is one reason the first cluster at 9.32 am is being treated as the critical window.
- Captain Sam Thomas of the Airline Pilots' Association said the pilot-in-command's report described a complete triple hydraulic failure lasting about six seconds, which the AAIB still has to match against recorder data.
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