Alliance Air flight stuck at IGI for 6 hrs

New Delhi: The Canadian Regional Jet (CRJ) of the Alliance Air that took off as CD 7601 in the morning to operate on Delhi-Vizag-Chennai sector developed a snag taking off from Vizag and returned to make an emergency landing. This flight was terminated here as the plane did not proceed to Chennai and after repairs returned to Delhi.
From Delhi, it was to fly to Ahmedabad at 6pm and then return to the capital at night. But the 60-odd Ahmedabad-bound passengers, including PM's media advisor Harish Khare, spent Diwali eve at IGI instead of reaching their destination in time. It again developed a snag and then a series of events kept delaying it. The CRJ took off around 11.45pm, a delay of almost six hours. An airline spokesperson confirmed the delay and the snags in the same plane on morning and evening flights. The problem began in the evening itself with the aircraft developing a snag with engine power. Small aircraft like CRJs are parked across the main runway and close to the international terminal side. Once this problem got rectified around 8pm, passengers were learnt to have been sent to the aircraft in buses. Incidentally, this was the second Alliance CRJ to have developed a snag earlier too.
17/10/09 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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