New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday sought responses of the Centre and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on a plea seeking grounding of all Airbus 320 Neo aircraft fitted with the troubled Pratt and Whitney engines.
A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice A J Bhambhani asked the DGCA and the Ministry of Civil Aviation to indicate their stand on the issue by August 8, saying there have been several instances recently of problems with Airbus Neo 320 planes flying on this specific engine.
On April 2, a Pune-Nagpur flight of IndiGo -- an Airbus A320 Neo -- was grounded soon after take-off due to "excessive engine vibrations". This, according to industry sources, was the sixth such incident in the past two weeks.
In the application, moved before the high court by former director of Flight Safety of Indian Airlines Captain S S Panesar, it has been contended that the Airbus aircraft fitted with the Pratt and Whitney (P&W) engines are not 100 per cent safe.
P&W is an American aerospace aircraft engines manufacturer.
He has claimed that P&W and DGCA have advised airlines not to put two such engines on their aircraft and to substitute one with some other engine.
Apart from that, it has also been advised that the A-320 Neo fitted with P&W engines not be flown over high seas and instead they should take a route which has an airport within 100 miles range, the application has alleged.
Another suggestion is "not to fly the aircraft (A-320 Neo) above 30,000 feet because of low density of air", Panesar has claimed in his application seeking grounding of these planes.
05/04/19 PTI/Outlook
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A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice A J Bhambhani asked the DGCA and the Ministry of Civil Aviation to indicate their stand on the issue by August 8, saying there have been several instances recently of problems with Airbus Neo 320 planes flying on this specific engine.
On April 2, a Pune-Nagpur flight of IndiGo -- an Airbus A320 Neo -- was grounded soon after take-off due to "excessive engine vibrations". This, according to industry sources, was the sixth such incident in the past two weeks.
In the application, moved before the high court by former director of Flight Safety of Indian Airlines Captain S S Panesar, it has been contended that the Airbus aircraft fitted with the Pratt and Whitney (P&W) engines are not 100 per cent safe.
P&W is an American aerospace aircraft engines manufacturer.
He has claimed that P&W and DGCA have advised airlines not to put two such engines on their aircraft and to substitute one with some other engine.
Apart from that, it has also been advised that the A-320 Neo fitted with P&W engines not be flown over high seas and instead they should take a route which has an airport within 100 miles range, the application has alleged.
Another suggestion is "not to fly the aircraft (A-320 Neo) above 30,000 feet because of low density of air", Panesar has claimed in his application seeking grounding of these planes.
05/04/19 PTI/Outlook
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