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Mobile phone led to plane nose damage
Updated On: 06 May, 2009 08:06 AM IST | | Aditya Anand
An engineer busy chatting on his mobile had handed over charge to a subordinate, which resulted in damage to a Kingfisher plane last week
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An engineer busy chatting on his mobile had handed over charge to a subordinate, which resulted in damage to a Kingfisher plane last week
With nearly 10 incidents of aircraft damage, reported in the past one year, due to the lackadaisical attitude of the ground staff, it seems aircraft are safer in the air than at the airport.u00a0
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An engineer was talking on his mobile, so he told a junior to guide the aircraft. The junior goofed up causing severe damage to the plane's nose |
"The pilot released the brakes and the tow-bar tractor propelled forward and came in contact with the nose gear, which was damaged as a result," said another official who was present at the scene of the incident.
Yesterday, it was an impatient Air India pilot who hit the aerobridge without shutting the main door of the aircraft.
Freak accident
A report prepared by the airport operator states that these freak incidents clearly reveal the lack of co-ordination between the pilot, ground engineer and tractor operator, that had made aircraft operations on the apron, less safer than in the air.
In the Air India IC 179 incident, airport sources informed that there was a last minute cargo operation on the aircraft. Once the operation was completed, the pilot erroneously assumed that all the doors were closed, and ordered the ground engineer to push back without realising that the aerobridge was not disconnected.
"This caused severe damage to the door, grounding the aircraft for repair," an airport official said.u00a0
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