AIR INDIA : EXCESS PASSENGERS
In fully loaded flight, AI stuffed in 3 extra persons
In these recessionary times, airlines globally are operating on half-empty seats. But Air India, which is passing through its worst ever financial crisis, is in fresh trouble for allegedly carrying extra passengers on a fully loaded flight. What adds to the irony is that the EXCESS PASSENGERS WERE DISCOVERED IN A PROBE INTO AIRCRAFT'S DOOR FALLING APART WHEN IT STARTED MOVING WHILE ATTACHED TO AN AEROBRIDGE!
The Mumbai-Mangalore flight, IC 179, being operated on a 172-seater Airbus A-321, had damaged its door in Mumbai on May 5, 2009. Following this, the passengers were off-loaded and taken to their destination in another aircraft. A probe by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) into the incident has found that the aircraft had three passengers more than its seating capacity.
``Of these three, one woman passenger was accommodated in the cockpit and two others on the foldable seats where cabin crew sits during take off and landing,'' said sources. The DGCA can now take criminal action against AI for this violation. MORE ...
In these recessionary times, airlines globally are operating on half-empty seats. But Air India, which is passing through its worst ever financial crisis, is in fresh trouble for allegedly carrying extra passengers on a fully loaded flight. What adds to the irony is that the EXCESS PASSENGERS WERE DISCOVERED IN A PROBE INTO AIRCRAFT'S DOOR FALLING APART WHEN IT STARTED MOVING WHILE ATTACHED TO AN AEROBRIDGE!
The Mumbai-Mangalore flight, IC 179, being operated on a 172-seater Airbus A-321, had damaged its door in Mumbai on May 5, 2009. Following this, the passengers were off-loaded and taken to their destination in another aircraft. A probe by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) into the incident has found that the aircraft had three passengers more than its seating capacity.
``Of these three, one woman passenger was accommodated in the cockpit and two others on the foldable seats where cabin crew sits during take off and landing,'' said sources. The DGCA can now take criminal action against AI for this violation. MORE ...
