Air India aircraft wing hits wall at Stockholm airport

The damage to the aircraft is being assessed

The wing of an Air India aircraft carrying 179 passengers hit the wall of a building during taxiing at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport Wednesday.

None of the people on board were hurt in the incident, an Air India official said yesterday.

The Boeing 787-8 (Dreamliner) plane had arrived from New Delhi and was taxiing to the gate when the tip of the left wing of the plane struck the wall, he said.

The damage to the aircraft is being assessed, he added.

Flight AI 167 had departed at 2.39am from New Delhi and landed at Stockholm at 5.30am (local time), according to the live flight tracking portal FlightRadar 24.

Last month, the wheels of a Boeing 737 plane operating Air India Express flight to Dubai from Trichy had hit the perimeter wall of the airport during the take-off but continued to its destination for nearly four hours.

It was however, diverted to Mumbai after the Trichy airport officials reported the matter to pilots that the aircraft might have come in contact with the wall.