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Air India Tail scrape And Pilot Loses Flying Privs

What: Air India Flight AI 614 en route from Ahmedabad to Mumbai
Where: Mumbai
When: Mar 13, 2012
Who: 100 passengers
Why: The Air India pilot believed he had a bird strike on landing and was attempting to abort the landing and perform a flyby, but the tail of the plane scraped the tarmac, and sent up a shower of sparks. Passengers aboard the plane were jerked about and frightened, but no serious injuries occurred.

The pilot has been taken off rotation as the incident is under investigation by the DGCA.

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