Indian Airlines Flight 557
Hawker Siddeley HS 748 · Runway excursion caused by pilot error and very poor weather conditions
From Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR) to Mangaluru International Airport (IXE)
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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 26
- 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
- 0
- 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
Hawker Siddeley HS 748
- Aircraft type
- Hawker Siddeley HS-748
- 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-DXF
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR)To Mangaluru International Airport (IXE)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Indian Airlines Flight 557 was the identifying code of an Indian Airlines scheduled flight between the cities of Bangalore and Mangalore, India, which on 19 August 1981 ran off the runway while landing at Mangalore International Airport.
The accident
Approaching Mangalore airport, the aircraft had to hold because of bad weather conditions; it was later cleared to land but touched down too far along the runway, was unable to stop and ended its run in a depression, causing the nose landing gear to collapse. There were no deaths or injuries among the passengers, while the aircraft was scrapped because of the damage sustained.
The investigation revealed that the pilot had not set the flaps to the correct position for landing, so the aircraft was flying at excessive speed and for this reason touched down too far along the runway. It was also noted that the runway in question sloped slightly downhill and that the aircraft had a tailwind.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Italian Wikipedia article “Volo Indian Airlines 557” (revision 127675758, 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
Italian Wikipedia article: Volo Indian Airlines 557
- Article
- Volo Indian Airlines 557
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 127675758 · 2022-05-31 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q4016237
- 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
- it Wikipedia article "Volo Indian Airlines 557" (page 3707121, revision 127675758), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article: the date in its opening sentence (the infobox gives none to the day)
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Italian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.