Chennai: Monday morning travellers at the Chennai airport were set back by over 45 minutes, after the runway was blocked by a British Airways cargo plane that stalled, after landing.
At 7.48 am, the British Airways Cargo flight from London, which had stopped at Cochin before flying to Chennai, had landed on the sole runway and was getting set to move towards the hangar when a technical glitch intervened.
The delay was a cascaded one and affected the movement of at least 15 other planes.
"It got stuck on the main runway and it was blocked for period of 27 minutes," said officials from Airports Authority of India, who rushed to clear the plane off the runway - so that waiting domestic and international planes could take off and land. After about 20 minutes of trying to get the plane moving again, the engineers gave up and called for a tug-tractor to manually pull It back to the hangar. "As it was a cargo plane, we were able to move it without offloading passengers. The size of the plane made it a slow process. Engineers are working out what the issue was now and a report will be sent to AAI and the DGCA soon," said an airport official.
04/11/13 Daniel Thimmayya/New Indian Express
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At 7.48 am, the British Airways Cargo flight from London, which had stopped at Cochin before flying to Chennai, had landed on the sole runway and was getting set to move towards the hangar when a technical glitch intervened.
The delay was a cascaded one and affected the movement of at least 15 other planes.
"It got stuck on the main runway and it was blocked for period of 27 minutes," said officials from Airports Authority of India, who rushed to clear the plane off the runway - so that waiting domestic and international planes could take off and land. After about 20 minutes of trying to get the plane moving again, the engineers gave up and called for a tug-tractor to manually pull It back to the hangar. "As it was a cargo plane, we were able to move it without offloading passengers. The size of the plane made it a slow process. Engineers are working out what the issue was now and a report will be sent to AAI and the DGCA soon," said an airport official.
04/11/13 Daniel Thimmayya/New Indian Express
