Probe into aircraft emergency landing

Guwahati/Silchar: The Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) today began a probe into yesterday’s emergency landing of an Air India ATR aircraft at Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at Borjhar in Guwahati, amid questions over fitness of aircraft flying in northeastern airspace.
A DGCA official in Guwahati told The Telegraph that the Calcutta-based regional safety manager of the agency’s air safety wing, Sanit Kumar, today visited Borjhar airport to probe how one of the nose wheels of the ATR aircraft fell off during take-off from Silchar, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing at LGBI Airport in Guwahati. There were 48 people on board the aircraft.
Kumar was yesterday appointed by the DGCA to inquire into the incident.
Sources at Silchar airport said the DGCA in New Delhi has ordered the probe to fix responsibility on any member of the staff in Dumdum, Calcutta.
12/06/12 The Telegraph

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