Mumbai: A team of French technicians arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday to repair the Air France aircraft that encountered an engine failure on Monday. The team will also probe the presence of a chisel-like tool in the engine cowling after the flight made an emergency landing. Mumbai airport officials said the team was called to get an air-worthiness certificate, which Indian agencies cannot provide.
On Monday morning, the Air France flight, with 200 passengers on board, took-off for Paris and returned after 30 minutes due to an engine failure. On inspection after landing, a maintenance team found a chisel-like tool in the engine hood. The tool seemed to have interfered with the engine and caused a failure.
Officials said that since the engine failure occurred only a few minutes after the take-off, it is likely that the tool interfered with the engine functioning.
13/03/13 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India
