Indigo A21N at Delhi on Sep 9th 2024, tailstrike on departure, flight continued to destination

Last Update: October 5, 2024 / 23:10:46 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 9, 2024

Classification
Accident

Airline
Indigo Airlines

Flight number
6E-6054

Departure
Delhi, India

Destination
Bangalore, India

Aircraft Registration
VT-IBI

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321-Neo

ICAO Type Designator
A21N

An Indigo Airbus A321-200N, registration VT-IBI performing flight 6E-6054 from Delhi to Bangalore (India), departed Delhi's runway 09 but struck its tail onto the runway surface. The crew continued the flight, climbed to FL350 and landed without further incident on Bangalore's runway 27L. There were no injuries, the aircraft sustained substantial damage however.

The aircraft is still on the ground in Bangalore standing Sep 18th 2024.

The airline reported the aircraft is grounded due to a tail strike.

India's DGCA is investigating the occurrence, the black boxes have already been sent for further analysis.

On Oct 6th 2024 India's DGCA reported: "Flight VIDP (New Delhi) – VOBL (Bengaluru). Post arrival, the walk around inspection was carried out and the lower part of a fuselage revealed the damages observed between frame no.60 to frame no.70 and from stringers 40LH to 40RH."
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Sep 9, 2024

Classification
Accident

Airline
Indigo Airlines

Flight number
6E-6054

Departure
Delhi, India

Destination
Bangalore, India

Aircraft Registration
VT-IBI

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321-Neo

ICAO Type Designator
A21N

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