Indian Airlines Boeing 737 accident near Rampurhat
Boeing 737-2A8 · The Indian Airlines Boeing 737 accident near Rampurhat occurred on 10 May 1980
From Bagdogra Airport (IXB) to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 132
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 10
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Boeing 737-2A8
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 737
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- VT-EDR
- Operator
- Indian Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Bagdogra Airport (IXB)To Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU)
Cause areas
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
- Environmental issues › Operating environment
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Rampurhat, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Indian Airlines Boeing 737 accident near Rampurhat occurred on 10 May 1980. On that day the Indian Airlines Boeing 737-2A8 Adv. (VT-EDR), with which a domestic scheduled flight from Bagdogra to Calcutta was being operated, encountered severe turbulence. Two passengers were killed and ten occupants were injured in the incident.
Flight and sequence of events
A domestic scheduled flight from Bagdogra to Calcutta was being operated with the aircraft. When the aircraft was over Rampurhat, at around 15:30 local time it flew into a weather zone with considerable turbulence. While the pilots were trying to fly around the thunderstorm, several occupants were thrown from their seats and seriously injured. Passengers and cabin crew had not been warned of the particular danger.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The cause of the accident was determined to be the aircraft's unexpected entry into an area of severe turbulence. It was established that the aircraft had been on a flight route that lay between two thunderstorm cells. This had come about because the crew was not warned in time by air traffic control of difficult weather conditions.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Boeing 737 der Indian Airlines bei Rampurhat” (revision 244607973, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Boeing 737 der Indian Airlines bei Rampurhat
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 244607973 · 2024-05-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q69523465
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Boeing 737 der Indian Airlines bei Rampurhat" (page 10948705, revision 244607973), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.