Mangalore, November 17: It is now final : it was pilot error which resulted in the horrific crash of flight IX 812 on May 22 this year, killing 158 passengers arriving from Dubai while landing at the table top airport in Mangalore.
Sources in the DGCA, privy to the final report on the investigation into the crash, said the pilot of the ill-fated flight, Zlatko Glusica, had been groggy from his 90 minute on-flight slumber, when he attempted to land the Air India IX 812737-800 on that fateful day.
The sources in Air India also confirmed that the final report has been indeed released but the DGCA had the first copy of it.
Sources said the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) recorded intermittent snoring of the pilot who was in deep sleep.
This recording was decoded by the American National Transport Board which stated that "this was the first instance of recording of snoring by a pilot on flight".
The pilot had woken up few minutes before the aircraft had entered Indian EEZ over Arabian Sea (200 kilometers from Bajpe airport).
The aircraft overshot the runway and crashed into the ravines beyond its perimeter.
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