Mumbai: The preliminary investigation report in the case of four-feet fuselage panel falling off from Boeing's Dreamliner flight being operated by Air India points to the fault of an engineer who has been suspended pending enquiry.
The engineer had asked to remove the screw of the panel, says the report.
The Bangalore-bound flight on October 12 2013 had 148 passengers on board.
An exclusive copy of the report with Headlines Today shows how human error put passengers' lives in danger.
The report says on October 9, deputy chief aircraft engineer A Rehan instructed service engineers H Mallik and Ranjit Singh to remove the panel while they were in the first shift.
Due to difficulty in removal of the panel as some screws were not coming out, the removed screws were handed over by first shift manager (service engineering) Rajesh Kumar to the second shift manager A.K Sharma. Rajesh Kumar made an entry of the handover in the shift allocation sheet as mentioned in the report.
25/10/13 Vikash Mishra/India Today
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The engineer had asked to remove the screw of the panel, says the report.
The Bangalore-bound flight on October 12 2013 had 148 passengers on board.
An exclusive copy of the report with Headlines Today shows how human error put passengers' lives in danger.
The report says on October 9, deputy chief aircraft engineer A Rehan instructed service engineers H Mallik and Ranjit Singh to remove the panel while they were in the first shift.
Due to difficulty in removal of the panel as some screws were not coming out, the removed screws were handed over by first shift manager (service engineering) Rajesh Kumar to the second shift manager A.K Sharma. Rajesh Kumar made an entry of the handover in the shift allocation sheet as mentioned in the report.
25/10/13 Vikash Mishra/India Today
