New Delhi – Jaipur – Udaipur – Aurangabad – Bombay

On April 26, 1993 at 01:06 PM, New Delhi – Jaipur – Udaipur – Aurangabad – Bombay experienced a crash involving Boeing 737-200, operated by Indian Airlines, with the event recorded near Aurangabad Maharashtra.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

118 people were known to be on board, 55 fatalities were recorded, 63 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 46.6%.

Crew on board: 6, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 112, passenger fatalities: 53, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft VT-ECQ was operating scheduled flight IC491 from Delhi to Jaipur, Udaipur, Aurangabad and Bombay. The flight from Delhi to Aurangabad was uneventful. The aircraft took-off from Aurangabad with 118 persons on board. Aircraft lifted up almost at the end of runway and impacted heavily with a lorry carrying pressed cotton bales running from North to South on a highway at a distance of about 410 feet from the end of runway. The aircraft left main landing gear, left engine bottom cowling and thrust reverser impacted the left side of the truck at a height of nearly seven feet from the level of the road. Thereafter the aircraft hit the high tension electric wires nearly 3 kms North-East of the runway and hit the ground. In all 55 persons received fatal injuries. The aircraft was destroyed due to post impact fire.

Aircraft reference details include registration VT-ECQ, MSN 20961, year of manufacture 1974.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 19.8682°, 75.3362°.