New Delhi: It is raining trouble for Air India's Dreamliner fleet as one of the aircrafts was forced to return to New Delhi on Thursday after developing a windshield crack mid-air on its way to Kolkata.
The incident comes a day after a Boeing 787 was grounded in Seoul as a "precautionary" measure for suspected engine trouble and two days after another aircraft was grounded at Dubai following a snag in its spoilers, which are plates on the top surface of a wing that can reduce the lift of an aircraft.
In Thursday's incident, the aircraft, operating flight AI-020 from Delhi to Kolkata, returned here after its windshield cracked while it was overflying Lucknow. The passengers were later flown to Kolkata on a Boeing 777-300, airline sources said.
Although there are several layers in an aircraft's windshield and the cracks occur mostly on the outer one, which does not affect flight safety, the pilots decided to return after the incident, they said. Such cracks occur either due to uneven heating or an object hitting it.
21/08/14 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
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The incident comes a day after a Boeing 787 was grounded in Seoul as a "precautionary" measure for suspected engine trouble and two days after another aircraft was grounded at Dubai following a snag in its spoilers, which are plates on the top surface of a wing that can reduce the lift of an aircraft.
In Thursday's incident, the aircraft, operating flight AI-020 from Delhi to Kolkata, returned here after its windshield cracked while it was overflying Lucknow. The passengers were later flown to Kolkata on a Boeing 777-300, airline sources said.
Although there are several layers in an aircraft's windshield and the cracks occur mostly on the outer one, which does not affect flight safety, the pilots decided to return after the incident, they said. Such cracks occur either due to uneven heating or an object hitting it.
21/08/14 PTI/Daily News & Analysis
