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Wings of two aircraft collide at Mumbai airport NEW DELHI: The wing tips of two taxying aircraft — Air India’s Airbus A320 and an IndiGo A320 — scraped each other at Mumbai Airport on Tuesday. The Air India aircraft was to fly to Coimbatore as AI 2732. The IndiGo aircraft had flown into Mumbai from…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation (MoCA) on Thursday issued a statement on the investigation into the plane crash at Baramati airport that killed Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others on Wednesday. The ministry said the probe into the Learjet 45 aircraft crash is progressing expeditiously.In a post on X, the…
Maharashtra schools shut after Ajit Pawar death in Baramati aircraft crash Schools across Maharashtra remained closed on Wednesday as the state government declared a three-day period of mourning following the tragic death of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a plane crash. The closure affected educational institutions throughout the state.The Maharashtra government announced an immediate…
PUNE: Newly released CCTV visuals show a devastating sequence of events as the chartered aircraft carrying Maharashtra deputy chief minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar exploded while attempting an emergency landing at Baramati airport on Wednesday morning.The footage captures a huge ball of fire, followed by smoke and successive smaller explosions eyewitnesses said. CCTV Footage…
India–EU FTA talks: India and the European Union pushed forward long-pending Free Trade Agreement talks during commerce minister Piyush Goyal’s Brussels visit, with both sides stressing a balanced deal that protects farmers and MSMEs while improving market access and global supply chain integration. Rourkela emergency landing: A nine-seater IndiaOne Air aircraft made a forced belly…
New Delhi: IndiGo was quizzed on Wednesday by a parliamentary committee over the misery inflicted on passengers by its mass-cancellation of flights, but it blamed a variety of factors, including system glitch and adverse weather conditions, while DGCA and the aviation ministry parried off criticism of their role in the fiasco.Some committee members termed replies…
IndiGo’s chairman, Vikram Singh Mehta, apologized for recent flight disruptions, denying they were deliberate. He stated external experts will identify root causes to prevent future chaos. Mehta clarified that the airline followed new pilot rest rules and did not compromise safety. A combination of internal and external factors, not intentional actions, pushed systems beyond limits,…
Vikram Singh Mehta (right) / File photo NEW DELHI: Under govt scrutiny for unprecedented flight disruptions, IndiGo chairman Vikram Singh Mehta on Wednesday denied the same were deliberate. Apologising multiple times in his about 8-minute video message, he said “external technical experts (will) work with the management; help determine the root causes, and ensure corrective…
NEW DELHI: Did IndiGo “waste time” till late October lobbying DGCA to either get exemption from certain rules in the new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) norms or getting its implementation deferred beyond the November 1 deadline, instead of preparing for it?The four-member government panel probing the IndiGo’s flight crisis will examine this, along with…
Air India had operated a 164-seater Airbus A320 on eight flights before an engineer finally detected a safety lapse and the aircraft was taken out of service.The flight, operated betwen November 24 and 25 according to sources cited by ET, was not suitable for flying as its airworthiness licence had already expired. The operations posed…
