WHAT DOES THE REPORT SAY?

The report highlighted several loopholes behind the deadly crash including pilot’s unstabilised approach and non-adherence to SOPs as the probable reasons behind the crash.

From systemic failures to the airline’s poor crew resource management, possibility of visual illusions due to low visibility and suboptimal performance of the PIC’s (Pilot-In-Command) windshield wiper, the AAIB has mentioned various other causes that have contributed to the crash. Both the pilots were killed in the crash after the Vande Bharat repatriation flight carrying Indians stranded in the UAE due to Covid-19 overshot and skidded off the tabletop runway at Calicut International Airport in Kerala in heavy rain, and the fuselage broke into two while nosediving into a ravine.