SpiceJet Boeing 737 Aircraft, Parked at Delhi Airport, Grounded After Being Hit by Toilet Cart
According to a tweet by ANI, the aircraft was parked in Bay 83L at Delhi Airport. Reports inform that cart had come to service the aircraft. Reports inform that the driver was reversing the cart when it hit aircraft.The aircraft has been grounded.
New Delhi, July 20: A SpiceJet Boeing 737 aircraft was grounded after it was hit by a toilet cart operated by Bird Worldwide Flight Services on Monday. According to a tweet by ANI, the aircraft was parked in Bay 83L at Delhi Airport. Reports inform that cart had come to service the aircraft and the driver was reversing the cart when it hit it. Following the incident, the Spicejet aircraft has been grounded with immediate effect.
In the last week, a six-month old baby onboard a SpiceJet flight lost her life at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) allegedly due to a heart disease. Sanjay Bhatia, DCP, IGI Airport said that the baby died on-board a Patna-Delhi SpiceJet flight while being taken to Delhi for medical treatment.
Earlier this week, SpiceJet engineer Rohit Pandey, who died at the Kolkata airport on July 9, was untrained and working without any supervision, a DGCA committee has found. The trainee engineer was killed after getting stuck in the flaps of a plane's landing gear door, was untrained and working without any supervision. Soon after, the airline issued a statement saying that the 22-year-old trainee got stuck between the hydraulic door flaps of the main landing gear of an aircraft during maintenance at the airport.
On July 29, aviation regulator DGCA had suspended flying licences of two SpiceJet pilots for unstabilised landing approach that led to their aircraft overshooting runway after landing at Mumbai airport this month. According to a report by PTI, the accident, involving a Boeing 737 plane coming from Jaipur, happened on July 1 and had led to closure of Mumbai airport's main runway. Due to the incident, the main runway was shut for more than three days before the aircraft was removed, causing inconvenience to scores of passengers.
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