Featured Air India Express plane crash: Aircraft breaks apart with 191 passengers–rescuers at scene

[Imran Khan]

Yes in like 30 mins after the accident the pilot was already declared a hero on social media. He may have been? but at present no facts point to that hence the making of another blockbuster Bollywood movie.

for me pilots like captain sully and captain kevin are heroes . not everyone die in south asia is hero for me . south asia is stupid place .

 

[Imran Khan]

The plane landed 3000 feet from the landing point.

yes it seems hot and late touch down

 

[FCPX]

for me pilots like captain sully and captain kevin are heroes . not everyone die in south asia is hero for me . south asia is stupid place .

The stories people are quoting for this crash are so improbable, just as an example; The pilot switching off the engine during landing to avert a fire - The engines are used for thrust reversing for braking so no pilot in his/her right mind would do that upon landing until the aircraft comes to a stop or unless the engines were on fire before landing.

What it looks like for now is a missed approach on one runway then the landing on another. It looks like the aircraft landed further down the normal touch down point. It looks like there was not enough distance for the aircraft to stop in time before over running the runway and sliding down. This points to some possible pilot error maybe along with other factors like condition of the runway but this is conjecture until the air crash investigation results are available.

BTW the same airline had a previous crash under almost similar circumstances in 2010 with over 150 fatalities.