Instrument Failure or Pilot Error ? Air India Flight 855, India's Deadliest Air Crash
Emperor Ashoka (registration: VT-EBD), the first-ever Boeing 747 delivered to the national airline of India, Air India Ltd, was involved in what was known and is amongst the deadliest aviation accident in India after the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision in 1996 and the bombing of Air India flight 182.
Consisting of 213 passengers including 23 crews, Flight 855 crashed during the New Years' eve of 1978, off the coast of Bandra, near the Santacruz Airport (currently operating as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport). Commanding the flight 855, was the 51-year-old Captain Madan Lal Kukar, having close to 18,000 flight hours. On the left-hand seat, the first officer having more than 4,500 flight hours, Indu Virmani, and the 53-Year-old Alfredo Faria, with about 11,000 flight hours.
Like many of the Air India jumbo jets, VT-EBD was named after the Mauryan ruler Emperor Ashoka, was infamously advertised as the "Palace in the Sky" due to the exotic and luxurious cabins, featuring the upper decked first-class Maharaja lounges, cocktail bars, and the embellished window panels of the Emperor fleet of the Air India's Boeing 747.
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