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This is the story of indigo flight 237. On the 27th of february 206 an indigo airbus a320 was on its way from ahmedabad to jaipur in india. Indigo is the country's largest airline with a large fleet of airbus A320s. The plane was supposed to leave ahmedabad at 4:10 pm but it left 10 minutes ahead of time at 4:00 pm. This was a short flight and by 4:32 pm the plane was in contact with jaipur approach getting closer to the airport. The first officer was the one that was in control of the plane while the captain kept watch over what the first officer was doing an he was monitoring the instruments. The controllers on the ground vectored the plane to a waypoint JJP via a waypoint named BUBNU, they were told to expect an ILS approach to runway 27 as the crew acknowledged they started the descent down to 11000 feet. As the plane dropped towards jaipur the pilots briefed on the approach that theyd take down to the runway. I imagine they talked about the usual stuff like runway conditions wind, go around procedures that sort of thing. It didnt look like they would need to go around tho, the weather was good, the winds were calm and they had a ton of visibility. Unless something went catastrophically wrong they would not need to go around. Since the weather was so good the controllers asked the pilots of flight 237 if thyed like to opt for a visual approach instead of the ILS approach that they have been assigned. Since the weather was so good they agreed. A visual approach is not hard if you have weather is good you just keep the runway in sight and take the plane in all the way. If at any point you lose sight of the runway you just go around. As the pilots took the plane even lower to 3600 feet the pilots reported that they had the runway in sight. Perfect this would be a walk in the park. At this point they were flying along the airport and they had not lined up with the runway yet. So they had to report to the controllers when they were on the left base leg. Which would be right about here. At that point they would be transferred from approach control to tower control who would take them all the way in. The plane was in the left downwind pattern and the pilots were slowly starting to bring the flaps in and starting to configure the plane for landing. Then the plane started to turn to the left to line up with the airport and the gear was dropped.
As this turn was being made the autopilot was disabled which meant that the pilots were now flying the plane. The speed was still managed by the computer though. Flight 237 was now about 4 nautical miles from the runway andd the pilots took the plane down as they searched to reacquire the runway. Still in the base turn the pilots had the runway in sight. The captain said runway in sight and asked the first officer to descend. But as the turn was ending the first officer was squinting through the sun trying to find the runway and he was not seeing what the captain was seeing, there was no runway to be found.The first officer was probably starting to worry now and then he had the scare of his life. They were at 500 feet and he saw the runway. The only problem was that they were not lined up with the runway, the runway was off to the side they were lined up with a highway that was off to the left of the runway. The captain asking the first officer to take the plane down to a highway. The first officer had very little time to react. The jet was at 480 feet and it was dropping fast in a mere 39 seconds the jet with - people on board had dropped another 180 feet and it was at 200 feet. At this point the captain realized what the first officer had known the whole time and both pilots called for a go around simultaneously. Right as they did that the too low terrain warning came on, thats a warning that you never wanna hear in the cockpit. The pilots pushed the engines to max power and the engines responded pushing the plane out of its descent for about 10 seconds the jet floated just 189 feet above the ground and then thankfully it started to gain altitude once the jet was fully climbing away they then landed the plane on runway 27 safely. This time using an ILS approach to the runway. Thus, they landed safely. I doubt if the passengers on the plane knew how close they were to disaster but they really were.
But before we go further lets talk about how this approach should have been carried out. Youd fly along the runway called the downwind leg, then when you were abeam of the runwa