Narrow escape for AI flight in Delhi
New Delhi, April 9: All the 183 passengers, including 14 crew members, of Air India’s Bangkok-Delhi flight had a miraculous escape on Monday morning when the aircraft developed problems in its under-carriage and landed in full emergency conditions in New Delhi.
Just before landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, the pilot of the Airbus A-310 received an “unsafe warning” about the problems in its under-carriage and the landing gear, sources said.
The pilot then alerted the Air Traffic Control, which asked him to land on the main runway in full emergency conditions.
After it landed on the main runway, it could not move on to the taxi way to clear the main runway.
The passengers and the baggage were offloaded on the main runway itself.
As soon as the tractor tried to tow it away, the nose-wheel collapsed and the plane got stuck on the main runway.
The Air India is now flying in heavy lift equipment from Mumbai and the main runway is likely to be closed till 1500 hours. The secondary runway is being used for flight operations.
“In fact, when the aircraft landed, it was an emergency landing but thanks to the pilot, he did an absolutely safe landing,” Venkat, Air India’s Public Relations chief, said.
“The passengers were brought down through stairs and when the aircraft was towed to a hanger through the taxi track the land gear collapsed,” he said.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Air India will enquiry into the incident.
By: GAZGLA - 9th April 2007 at 13:06
That would be G-CDPT then?
Gaz
By: KabirT - 9th April 2007 at 12:48
Another emergency landing at IGI airport
NEW DELHI: Hours after an Air India aircraft got its nose-wheels bogged down on ground at the IGI airport, another plane of the same airline coming in from Dubai landed under full emergency conditions with 65 passengers on board with a hydraulic problem.
The Dubai-Delhi flight, AI-736, landed amid emergency conditions with the pilot of the Boeing-767 informing the air traffic control about a hydraulic problem in the aircraft, airport sources said.
The Dubai flight landed safely at 1515 hours, the sources said, adding the aircraft was taken to a remote bay for repairs after the passengers de-planed.
Earlier in the day, Air India’s Shanghai-Bangkok-Delhi flight (AI-349), with 191 people on board, landed under similar conditions after it developed problems in its under-carriage.
Its nose-wheel capsized and got bogged down when it was being towed by a tractor for repairs to an isolated bay.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Another_emergency_landing_at_IGI_airport/articleshow/1880973.cms
By: steve rowell - 9th April 2007 at 10:54
The main thing is all souls are safe
By: Si Jones - 9th April 2007 at 08:46
Interesting that the Biman nose gear incident at DXB was an A310 also.
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April 9, 2007 at 8:18 am