1951 Air India accident in Bangalore
Douglas DC-3/C-47A-30-DK · The 1951 Air India accident in Bangalore occurred on 15 September 1951
From Bangalore-Hindustan Airport, India to Thiruvananthapuram International Airport (TRV)
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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 26
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Douglas DC-3/C-47A-30-DK
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-3
- 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-CCA
- Operator
- Air India
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Bangalore-Hindustan Airport, IndiaTo Thiruvananthapuram International Airport (TRV)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1951 Air India accident in Bangalore occurred on 15 September 1951. On that day a Douglas DC-3/C-47A-30-DK of Air India, which was to operate a domestic scheduled flight from Bangalore to Trivandrum, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing one crew member.
Accident sequence
Immediately after takeoff from Hindustan Bangalore Airport, the pilots lost control of the aircraft, whereupon the aircraft crashed to the ground. As a result of the accident, one crew member was killed and the other occupants were injured. The aircraft had to be written off as a total loss.
Investigation and cause
Cause
In the course of the accident investigation it was determined that the aircraft had crashed after the pilots had mistakenly attempted to take off with the autopilot engaged.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall der Air India in Bangalore 1951” (revision 256385747, 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 der Air India in Bangalore 1951
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 256385747 · 2025-05-26 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q106604844
- 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 der Air India in Bangalore 1951" (page 11741753, revision 256385747), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- "scheduled flight" in the article's opening paragraph
- 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.