The lack of accountability by departments concerned and the indifference attitude of elected representatives have made air transport service to the Kolkata-Tezpur-Lilabari route a farce and put the lives of passengers at risk. Air India has been operating with 20 plus years old aircraft in this route.
The malfunctioning of landing wheel of Air India’s flight AI 9739 from LGBI Airport in Guwahati to Lilabari Airport in Lakhimpur in the beginning of this year opened a Pandora’s Box on safety standards of some of the fleet of the national career operating in the Kolkata-Tezpur-Lilabari route.
The ATR42-320 aircraft cruising over Jorhat while approaching Lilabari on January 10 developed a technical snag to open its landing wheels. The aircraft was to make an emergency landing but since the Lilabari airport does not have the logistics for such landing, the flight AI9739 was flown back to LGBI airport at Borjhar in Guwahati and it landed safely there.
Besides causing irreparable losses to the passengers on board, which included many from Kolkata; the incident deprived and affected the travel plans of waiting passengers at Lilabari who could not reach Guwahati, Kolkata and other destinations on that day. The incident is one such mark on the various limitations affecting the air service to Lilabari from Kolkata via Guwahati affecting people from the northeastern corner of the state as well as from Arunachal Pradesh.
06/09/18 Farhana Ahmed/Northeast Now
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The malfunctioning of landing wheel of Air India’s flight AI 9739 from LGBI Airport in Guwahati to Lilabari Airport in Lakhimpur in the beginning of this year opened a Pandora’s Box on safety standards of some of the fleet of the national career operating in the Kolkata-Tezpur-Lilabari route.
The ATR42-320 aircraft cruising over Jorhat while approaching Lilabari on January 10 developed a technical snag to open its landing wheels. The aircraft was to make an emergency landing but since the Lilabari airport does not have the logistics for such landing, the flight AI9739 was flown back to LGBI airport at Borjhar in Guwahati and it landed safely there.
Besides causing irreparable losses to the passengers on board, which included many from Kolkata; the incident deprived and affected the travel plans of waiting passengers at Lilabari who could not reach Guwahati, Kolkata and other destinations on that day. The incident is one such mark on the various limitations affecting the air service to Lilabari from Kolkata via Guwahati affecting people from the northeastern corner of the state as well as from Arunachal Pradesh.
06/09/18 Farhana Ahmed/Northeast Now
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