Patna: A Kingfisher Airlines flight bound for Ranchi was declared “unfit” for onward journey on landing in the Jharkhand capital five days ago, but sources have told The Telegraph that the snag had occurred while taking off from the Jaiprakash Narayan airport here.
Flight IT 3571, with 173 passengers on board, took off from Patna around 3.08pm on July 26 for a roughly 40-minute journey to Ranchi. On landing at the Birsa Munda airport around 3.50pm, the Airbus A320 was found “not fit” for onward journey to Mumbai.
It was found that fan blades of one of the engines and the cowlings — the outer cover of the engines — were damaged.
The extent of the damage was such that aircraft engineers from Calcutta had to be flown to Ranchi.
Information collected by The Telegraph suggests that the aircraft developed a snag during takeoff from Patna. The commander, Captain Meera Pandey, however, did not report any such problem.
Sources at Patna airport said that as soon as the flight took off, a bird chaser reported that he had seen a metal sheet, around 2 feet long and 1.5 feet wide, lying on the runway.
The air traffic control got in touch with the captain. “A metal sheet has been found on the runway, confirm all operations normal,” the ATC asked the flight captain at 3:19:53pm. Within six seconds of the query came the reply that all operations were normal.
31/07/10 Sanjeev Kumar Verma/The Telegraph
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