Indian Airlines Flight 503

[2] The passengers, crew and victims on the ground were all admitted to INHS Sanjivani for treatment.

[2] The Directorate General of Civil Aviation ordered an investigation into the accident and a three-member Committee of Inquiry headed by Air Marshal P. Raj Kumar was constituted under the Aircraft Rules, 1937.

[9] The Committee in its report made 49 findings and 7 recommendations and stated that "poor aircraft maintenance practices at Short Haul Operations Department had contributed to the accident".

[10] It found that the aircraft had pitched up uncontrollably after takeoff and that this was the result of a "sudden uncommanded downward movement of the Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer leading edge.

"[12] Indian Airlines paid ₹76.87 lakh (7,687,000, roughly US$195,000) as compensation to the victims and received ₹5 crore (50,000,000, US$1.27 million) from its insurers towards loss of the aircraft.