New Delhi: The Air India management on Tuesday issued a show cause notice to the CEO of its engineering subsidiary over the large number of faulty aircraft being grounded in recent days and unusually large delays caused by snags. The notice was issued to AI Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) CEO H R Jaganath after last week saw as many as 10 planes — five Airbus A-320s, three to four Dreamliners and one other aircraft —being grounded on a single day.
"The problem of snags delaying planes has been worsening. Every day we have some flights being delayed due to snags not being rectified in time or plane being released for flight without the existing fault being rectified. While none of these are safety issues, they delay flight and inconvenience passengers. Given the gravity of the problem, we decided to issue the notice to the head of AIESL," said a senior official. AIESL was among the two subsidiaries carved out of AI, with the other being for ground handling.
Things came to a head last week when an unprecedented thing happened — two engine failures within a space of 10 hours. A 1989-era Airbus A-320 took off from Kochi for Delhi on last Thursday and got an engine fire warning within seconds of getting airborne. Thanks only to the commander's superb handling, the fully loaded plane returned to Kochi safely despite being way above the maximum landing weight.
26/08/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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"The problem of snags delaying planes has been worsening. Every day we have some flights being delayed due to snags not being rectified in time or plane being released for flight without the existing fault being rectified. While none of these are safety issues, they delay flight and inconvenience passengers. Given the gravity of the problem, we decided to issue the notice to the head of AIESL," said a senior official. AIESL was among the two subsidiaries carved out of AI, with the other being for ground handling.
Things came to a head last week when an unprecedented thing happened — two engine failures within a space of 10 hours. A 1989-era Airbus A-320 took off from Kochi for Delhi on last Thursday and got an engine fire warning within seconds of getting airborne. Thanks only to the commander's superb handling, the fully loaded plane returned to Kochi safely despite being way above the maximum landing weight.
26/08/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
