A320, vicinity Jaipur India, 2016

A320, vicinity Jaipur India, 2016

Summary

On 27 February 2016, an Airbus A320 making an into-sun visual approach to Jaipur in hazy conditions lined up on a road parallel to the intended landing runway and continued descent until an EGPWS ‘TOO LOW TERRAIN’ Alert occurred at 200 feet agl upon which a go-around was initiated. The Investigation found that although the First Officer had gained visual reference with both road and runway at 500 feet agl, the Captain had seen only the road and continued asking the First Officer to continue descent towards it despite the First Officer’s attempts to alert him to his error.

Description

On 27 February 2016, an Airbus A320 (VT-IGK) being operated by Indigo on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Ahmedabad to Jaipur as 6E-237 discontinued its initial day VMC visual approach to runway 27 at destination when an EGPWS ‘TOO LOW TERRAIN' Alert was annuniciated at a low level after the aircraft had lined up on a road parallel to the runway. Positioning to a second approach, this time using the ILS LLZ, was followed by a landing and was without further event.

The road mistaken for the runway by the Captain. [Reproduced from the Official Report]

Investigation

An Investigation in accordance with Annex 13 principles was carried out by Indian DGCA. The FDR was recovered from the aircraft and its data were successfully downloaded but the CVR was not removed because the initial report of the event described it only as a “go-around due to triggering of a GPWS warning”.

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