Nagpur: The leaking roof in the arrival section of Nagpur's Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport caused a portion of the false ceiling over the conveyor belt to fall off. The incident took place on Saturday morning, according to airport officials, when there was no passenger movement and thus no one was hurt or their baggage damaged.
The airport officials also said that there was no damage to the conveyor belt either. The airport has been facing seepage problems for some time now, which, apart from Saturday's incident, are leaving blemishes all over the ceiling in the arrival section. Some readers had sent TOI photos of the leak too. "It's not a pretty sight, doesn't make a good first impression of the city," said the reader.
The officials said that the leak was happening due to the faulty sky light ceiling over the arrival section. "This section is not the part of the original airport building structure and was made additionally when the Airports Authority of India (AAI) was revamping the airport. It was then that this sky light ceiling was built and there is a basic design fault due to which we face the seepage problem every year," said P Anil Kumar, senior airport director.
26/08/14 Aparna Nair/Times of India
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The airport officials also said that there was no damage to the conveyor belt either. The airport has been facing seepage problems for some time now, which, apart from Saturday's incident, are leaving blemishes all over the ceiling in the arrival section. Some readers had sent TOI photos of the leak too. "It's not a pretty sight, doesn't make a good first impression of the city," said the reader.
The officials said that the leak was happening due to the faulty sky light ceiling over the arrival section. "This section is not the part of the original airport building structure and was made additionally when the Airports Authority of India (AAI) was revamping the airport. It was then that this sky light ceiling was built and there is a basic design fault due to which we face the seepage problem every year," said P Anil Kumar, senior airport director.
26/08/14 Aparna Nair/Times of India
