Boeing 737 Flies Through Brick Wall, Smashes Tower on Takeoff, Keeps On Flying - 737 brick wall.JPG ...

https://jalopnik.com/boeing-737-flie...n-t-1829792198

On most flights I’ve been on, everything gets held up even if something as minor
as the latch that holds the rolling trash-dolly in place is too tarnished. Only
after it’s perfect can the plane take off. That sure as hell wasn’t the case
with this Air India flight, which kept right on going even after the pilot
clipped the top off a brick wall and whacked into an instrumentation tower.

Even though the impacts should have been clearly audible and felt to the 130
passengers on the flight leaving Tiruchirappalli International Airport in Tamil
Nadu, India, the pilot just presumably thought, “ah, screw it,” and continued
heading into the sky.

According to India’s National Post,

“We informed the pilot about the hit,” the airport director told the IANS news
service. “The pilot said nothing was wrong with the plane as the systems were
functioning normally. But we found some parts of the plane, like an antenna, on
the ground.”

About two hours into the flight, with the plane already halfway to Dubai, the
flight was recalled to Mumbai, where it landed without incident, and no
injuries.

When the plane was inspected, the found the aluminum skin of the underside of
the fuselage had been ripped open, exposing the honeycomb material inside. Oh,
and there were sections of fencing wrapped around the landing gear, too.

Both pilot and co-pilot have been taking off the flying roster. There is no word
yet as to whether they’ll have to help put that wall back together.


https://nationalpost.com/news/world/...st-keeps-going



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"Miloch" wrote in message news

https://jalopnik.com/boeing-737-flie...n-t-1829792198

About two hours into the flight, with the plane already halfway to Dubai,
the flight was recalled to Mumbai

Sounds like they had to make a few conference calls before finally
deciding...