Air India Flight's Crisis Over New York: Chilling Moments On Tape

NEW DELHI: On 9/11, an Air India 777-300 with 370 passengers on board was on the most crucial phase of its flight – landing at New York's John F Kennedy airport – when the pilots were confronted with multiple systems failure. What made the situation worse was that after a 15 hour non-stop flight from Delhi, fuel was low and the weather was bad. The pilots improvised and used a non-standard approach to land.
NDTV has accessed the conversation between the pilots of the Air India 777-300 and the Air Traffic Control in New York during those horrifying moments.

In the clip, the pilots are heard discussing the weather over New York's John F Kennedy airport and how bad their fuel situation is. With an approach into JFK not possible, the pilots decide to land at their alternate airport – Newark. But the weather there is bad too, and the instrument landing system of the jet, which allows the airliner to land in poor weather conditions, is non-operational.

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