AIR INDIA FLIGHT HITS PARKED TRUCK AFTER LANDING AT DELHI’S IGI AIRPORT
Air India aircraft hit a parked ground cooling unit (GCU) truck after landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday.
According to officials, the incident took place around 9.41pm on Friday night.
The cooling unit truck is a ground support equipment, which supplies cold or hot air into a parked aircraft to maintain comfortable temperature.
Officials confirmed that engine number 1 on the outboard side of the flight, AI820 from Vadodara to Delhi, hit a parked ground cooling unit at bay C33.
A spokesperson of the airline said that the Air India management had constituted a two member high-level committee to investigate the incident.
“The committee will submit its report within seven days. This committee will function independent of other committee constituted by other regularity bodies to probe into the incident,” said an official.
Flight traffic at Delhi airport has been growing at 20% rate each year. The number of such incidents, including planes straying into each other’s paths on the runway or mid-air, has seen a significant rise too.
On August 9, an Ethiopian Airline’s plane, carrying 196 passengers, hit a parked Air India aircraft at 2.25am at the airport. The Ethiopian Airlines’ plane was parked at bay No. 87 and was being pushed back by a tractor when the incident took place.
The engines of both aircraft were shut when the wing of the Ethiopian plane crashed into the wing of Air India aircraft. Due to the collision , the Ethopian flight, ET- 687, was cancelled.