What delayed AI 829 by 8 hours?

The departure of the Riyadh-bound Air India aircraft, whose engine caught fire on Friday (September 4), was delayed by over eight hours as its cargo fire indicator was showing the red signal before its scheduled take-off. The pilot of AI-829, which was scheduled to depart at 0200 hours, detected the warning signal and asked the engineers to check and rectify the problem, sources claimed in Mumbai .
The engineers checked the Boeing double-decker jumbo and found no fault and said it was a false warning as the indicator was faulty, the sources said. Air India de-rostered an aircraft maintenance engineer responsible for the flight's departure, pending investigation as per the laid down procedure.
As the detection took several hours, a new crew was brought in when the original crew refused to fly on the grounds that their flight time limits was coming to an end. The Flight Duty Time Limitation (FDTL) rules restrict the flight duty hours of both the cabin as well as the cockpit crew generally to eight hours.
05/09/09 TimesNow.tv

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