New Delhi/Mumbai: As many as 236 passengers were stranded in Paris following a Paris-New Delhi flight was cancelled due to technical snags on Saturday night. Air India will bring to Delhi the stranded passengers on Monday morning in a scheduled flight.
Air India's flight AI 142, operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, had to be grounded as it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night following malfunctioning of the “spoilers on the aircraft. Spoilers are speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down.
“The stranded passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi on Monday morning,” said an official in Air India.
This is the second time technical snags have surfaced in Dreamliners spoilers. In February, a Delhi-Frankfurt flight had to be cancelled due to spoiler trouble.
Air India chairman and managing director Rohit Nandan had said on Wednesday that there were no plans to ground the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as the fleet was doing well and there were no safety concerns attached with them. The Boeing and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have looked into every fleet incident reported in the past 18 months and said there were no safety issues involved, Nandan had said.
17/03/14 Business Standard
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Air India's flight AI 142, operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, had to be grounded as it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night following malfunctioning of the “spoilers on the aircraft. Spoilers are speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down.
“The stranded passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi on Monday morning,” said an official in Air India.
This is the second time technical snags have surfaced in Dreamliners spoilers. In February, a Delhi-Frankfurt flight had to be cancelled due to spoiler trouble.
Air India chairman and managing director Rohit Nandan had said on Wednesday that there were no plans to ground the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as the fleet was doing well and there were no safety concerns attached with them. The Boeing and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have looked into every fleet incident reported in the past 18 months and said there were no safety issues involved, Nandan had said.
17/03/14 Business Standard
