Makes that even worse. The hips all have Radar altimeters which should have been beeping away even as they approached the hillside. A lot of safety aspects were ignored in making this accident happenThe said difference is not 1500, but 2500 feet.
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Makes that even worse. The hips all have Radar altimeters which should have been beeping away even as they approached the hillside. A lot of safety aspects were ignored in making this accident happenThe said difference is not 1500, but 2500 feet.
Mi 17 has no navigation besides an NDB receiverin pitch black never-mind a little fog using some kinda satellite
This is highly likely in absence of a mechanical defect or sabotage.Same thing happened with Kobe's crash, pilot didn't want to say no to the VVIP client, even though conditions were far less than ideal for flying and result in CFIT as well...
Radar altimeters are not precise at low altitudes, let alone a tube one from fifties.Makes that even worse. The hips all have Radar altimeters which should have been beeping away even as they approached the hillside. A lot of safety aspects were ignored in making this accident happen
So, they put aftermarket upgrades on their helos. Then this turns much less clear.I do not understand why you are doing this.
according to airforce-technology.com the custom-made Injun Mi-17V-5 helicopters integrate KNEI-8 avionics suite including navigation, information-displays and cueing systems.
bharati Mi-17V-5 is equipped with state-of-the-art avionics, including four multifunction displays, night-vision equipment, an on-board weather radar, and an autopilot system.
India has plenty of satellites up there. Don't
those things pick such kind of weather to avoid flying through it for their own CDS.
There is something really really wrong about this accident.
We can only speculate. I hope it is the first of the three possibilities that you've listed. The last possibility appears to be the least likely to me.If the video is accurate then the heli must have been in IFR (Flying solely on instruments) and not flying by visuals. So to have a CFIT (Controlled flight into terrain) would require either some type of instrument failure or some very poor piloting skills. Indian Armed Forces used Mi-17s in much more adverse conditions than some fog and they have performed admirably.The black box will tell the story but at this point each there are no easy causes to swallow.
- Either the helicopter developed a major fault and is vulnerable in certain conditions,
- Or one of our pilots made a fatal mistake
- Or some sort of sabotage, If external then it's an act of war.. If internal then I can't even imagine the fallout.
The pilot was commander of the training school, so skilled. I think the darbari nature of asian people played here. The pilot has lowered the altitude to show clouds, probably to Mrs Rawat. That is why he plunged into the clouds/fog.It can be safely concluded that the pilots were supposed to fly at an altitude of 6,500 feet as it was a hilly terrain and any lower altitude meant chance of collision with mountains. But such experienced IAF pilots showed utter unprofessional behavior by ignoring ground control and flying at dangerously low heights
It happened in U2 case, but can't ahppen now. Plus there wd be redundancy. Plus pilot could see the ground (before going into fog). Plus he was supposed to fly 6500 ft. Within 2 minutes from the take off, the control tower feedback could make him realise that the ceiling told by tower and instrument mismatch.What if altitude instrument was sabotaged to confuse the pilots into flying low
varun singh, yes. so he is no aide to bippin but one of the 2 pilots? does it mean that lil ole me was correct all along?
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I assure you, (IF) its internal - it'll become a conspiracy/myth... Something that will never be made public and most certainly be swept under a rug.- Or some sort of sabotage, If external then it's an act of war.. If internal then I can't even imagine the fallout.
update:I thought Varu Singh wasn’t the chopper pilot?