Plane grounded by Faulty brakes
A Guwahati-bound flight of Kingfisher Airlines had to turn back instead of taking off at Delhi airport on Monday after one of its brakes developed a technical fault. The incident took place at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport on Monday at 9.10 am.
Kingfisher's Delhi-Guwahati flight IT 3339, with 140 passengers and crew on board, started taxiing at its scheduled departure time but the pilot soon realised that brake number two of the aircraft was functioning properly. "If the brakes malfunction, the landing of the aircraft becomes very risky.
That is why the pilot decided not to take off and came back to the bay," said an airport official who did not wish to be named. "Technical faults like these should be checked properly before the aircraft starts taxiing.
There could have been more problems if the plane had taken off," he said. The pilot immediately informed the air traffic control about the technical fault.
The aircraft, an Airbus A320-200 (registration number VT-DKV), came back to the parking bay. "The aircraft was then thoroughly checked and the problem was rectified.
The flight was delayed by about half an hour due to the fault," said the official. The same aircraft then took off for its destination, he said.
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