Friday, October 10, 2014

DGCA grounds three planes of GoAir, Air India, private operator

New Delhi: Three aircraft belonging to GoAir, Air India and a private non-scheduled operator have been grounded over the past few days by aviation regulator DGCA as it continued with its heightened surprise safety checks.

The three aircraft -- two Airbus A-320s and a Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ), were grounded after the safety surveillance found "significant and substantive" lapses in them, official sources said.

An Airbus A-320 of GoAir, VT-WAK, was grounded after it was found that a number of screws and bolts of its right-side air-conditioning panel were loose and not fixed properly, which could have caused a dangerous safety situation in- flight, they said. The door seal of the aircraft's nose-gear was also found to be not properly sealed, they said.
Another A-320 of Air India was grounded after the national carrier did not carry out a mandatory second check of the cowl or covering of the right-side engine, which was repaired several weeks ago for a dent.
10/10/14 PTI/Economic Times
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