Power failure at Delhi airport damages aircraft

Mumbai: An American Airlines plane was accidentally damaged at the Indira Gandhi International Airport yesterday night when power supply was disrupted for a brief period.
Sources told NDTV that the door of the American Airline plane was damaged in the incident. The incident occured at bay 42 after which the return flight of the airline has been cancelled.
Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), which manages the Delhi, airport said in a statement, that due to a glitch in the power back up there was a malfunction in the automated electrical systems, which was then switched to manual mode. As a result, "the aerobridge attached to American Airlines flight 292/293 operating to Chiacgo accidentally touched the boarding gate of the aircraft leading to the damage."
The statement from DIAL said that all the passengers had disembarked and there was no one in the plane when the incident occured.
Sources said that as soon as power supply was restored, the aerobridge started moving in the opposite direction, which caused the damage to the aircraft's door.
This is the second such incident that has happened in the last few days. An Air India plane was damaged when the pilot tried to taxi the aircraft while one of the doors was still open. The door hit the aerobridge and was ripped apart while there were 172 people on board.
15/05/09 Ashutosh Sinha and Arijit Banerjee/NDTV.com

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