Air India plane hits wall

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Air India Boeing 737 had 130 passengers and six crew members on board when it hit an airport perimeter wall right after takeoff at the Tricky Airport in Tamil Nadu. Despite hitting the wall, the aircraft continued to fly for another four hours across the Indian Ocean and halfway to Dubai.

After two hours in the air, the plane was ordered to return to Mumbai, India, by ground control, for obvious safety reasons.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...ter-hitting-a-wall/ar-BBOsQQl?ocid=spartandhp
 
Wasn't us.......... Our chain link fence is stuck in your gear.....

Wasn't us........... Our ILS paint is smeared across your belly....

No spreaka engrish....... Our brick wall has Boeing paint smeared on it.....

Jesus was at the wheel.
 
You can buy a PPL in India. Actually met a 10 hour pilot with his license wanting to rent in the USA.
 
The real name of the field is Tiruchirappalli International Airport.

If I had to say that, I might hit the wall, too.
 
And here I thought trying to clear those imaginary 50' obstacles was hard.
 
Like someone said, who puts a brick wall at the end of the runway.??
 
Hmm, half way to the destination and they have them turn around for safety reasons? Back to the "tricky" airport?
 
Like someone said, who puts a brick wall at the end of the runway.??

Looks to me like the whole perimeter fence might be the same brick wall. Try the satellite photo in this map:

Tiruchirapalli International Airport TRZ
https://goo.gl/maps/XDJkWEsc37q

Having seen a construction site in India, it does not surprise me. The cost of labor is almost nil, so a brick wall might not be so expensive compared to chain link fence.
 
You actually believed what you read?!?

It doesn’t say “turn around” anywhere.

The msn story was sloppy in using the verb “return” instead of “divert”, to Mumbai. On a map, Mumbai isn’t actually that much out of the way, from TRZ to Dubai.

Another sloppiness by msn: “tricky” is a typo. Trichy is the correct nickname.
 
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Looks to me like the whole perimeter fence might be the same brick wall. Try the satellite photo in this map:

Tiruchirapalli International Airport TRZ
https://goo.gl/maps/XDJkWEsc37q

Having seen a construction site in India, it does not surprise me. The cost of labor is almost nil, so a brick wall might not be so expensive compared to chain link fence.
Dum Dum airport (VECC, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport) also has a brick wall surrounding it. A bit of trivia- the Dum Dum arsenal used to be in that town, proposed the soft-point bullets now associated by that name.
 
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