Snag disrupts Kingfisher flight schedule

Kolkata: Flight schedules of Kingfisher Airlines went haywire in the last two days after one of its aircraft was grounded following a snag. Four Kingfisher flights were delayed by several hours on Tuesday and Wednesday and two others cancelled for paucity of aircraft. Nearly 300 passengers were inconvenienced.
The ATR aircraft, based in Mumbai and bearing the registration VATKAL, was to fly to Agartala from Kolkata on Tuesday. The flight, IT-2541, took off at 3.15 pm but returned within 15 minutes after the captain noticed a hydraulic snag that jammed the landing gear.
Though Agartala-bound passengers were endorsed on a subsequent Indigo flight, lack of a spare ATR aircraft meant that all flights to the North-East that use the type of aircraft would take a hit.
IT 2503 to Bhubaneswar, scheduled to take off at 6.30 pm, departed at 11 pm on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Bagdogra-bound flight with 40-odd passengers was cancelled. They were endorsed in a Jet Airways flight. The Guwahati-bound flight, which was scheduled to take off at 7.30 am, departed from Kolkata at 11 am.
The Agartala-bound flight departed at 6 pm, over two hours 45 minutes behind schedule. The Bhubaneswar-bound IT 2503 left Kolkata at 9 pm instead of 6.40 pm.
09/11/07 Arpit Basu/Times of India

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