Air India aircraft scrapes Mumbai runway

Source: financialexpress.com

  An Air India pilot attempted to take off immediately after landing in Mumbai this morning in the mistaken belief that the aircraft had been hit by a bird, causing the tail to scrape the runway at high speed, and putting the plane and the nearly 100 passengers on board at risk, sources said.

AI 614 from Ahmedabad skidded and lurched in a shower of sparks as the airframe brushed the tarmac at nearly 180 km per hour. Passengers in the back rows were jolted by the impact, but no injuries were reported.

The plane, an Airbus 319 inducted less than two years ago, will be out of service for at least two months. Repairs could cost up to Rs 3 crore, sources said. Grave consequences might have followed had the auxiliary power unit in the tail caught fire.

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