New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry today termed as "totally undesirable" a panel falling off a Boeing 787 Dreamliner while landing at the Bangalore airport over a week ago, but said the incident had not endangered the safety of passengers and the aircraft.
A team of engineers from Boeing has also joined their counterparts from DGCA and Air India to investigate how a large panel fell off, Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Mishra told reporters when asked about the incident.
"It was totally undesirable. But it did not have any implication for safety of the aircraft or passengers, though we are not condoning it," he said.
Boeing officials said they were working alongside Air India to provide support and also maintained that this was "not a safety-of-flight issue".
21/10/13 PTI/Economic Times
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A team of engineers from Boeing has also joined their counterparts from DGCA and Air India to investigate how a large panel fell off, Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Mishra told reporters when asked about the incident.
"It was totally undesirable. But it did not have any implication for safety of the aircraft or passengers, though we are not condoning it," he said.
Boeing officials said they were working alongside Air India to provide support and also maintained that this was "not a safety-of-flight issue".
21/10/13 PTI/Economic Times
