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Air India Express from Abu Dhabi veers off taxiway at Kochi airport, all passengers safe

  •   Tue, Sep 05 2017 09:38:25 AM

Kochi, Sep 5 (IE): An Air India Express aircraft, which had arrived at the Kochi airport from Abu Dhabi, veered off the taxiway leading to the collapse of its nose-wheel, PTI reported.

All 102 passengers and six crew members were evacuated safely.

A Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) official told PTI that the incident was reported at 2:40 am when the flight, IX452 which landed at Kochi from Abu Dhabi, proceeded towards the parking bay when it veered off the taxiway.

It is learnt that the aircraft has been grounded and that a DGCA inquiry has been initiated into the incident.
  

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  • Pasha, Mangalore

    Wed, Sep 06 2017

    In your article you say that the DGCA has grounded the aircraft. Please take a good look at the photos & tell me how will the aircraft fly in its present condition. To veer off a runway and land in a drain like this is not normal. I would say that the passengers were lucky the fuel tanks did not rupture, otherwise there would have been a lot of causalities. If you read today's news almost 130 pilots from Air India have refused to take their mandatory medical pre-flight screening tests. Does this not tell you the way this airline is being operated? Let us stop this chalta hai attitude & have them answer to the public.

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  • Evans Christopher Sumitra, Udupi/ New York, USA.

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    This was a rare incident where Air India Express veered off the taxiway at Kochi airport but luckily all the passengers, as well as crew members, were safe. I travel a lot to many countries but I feel air travel is the safest. It maybe Air India or any other airlines.

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  • H.A.Sayed, Udupi- Muscat

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    we always travel by Ar India express from muscat, because there is no other option, but you don't tell others to boycott.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    Last week I had been to Delhi . From there I proceeded to Amritsar by AIR INDIA .but the service was good and landing was superb. While getting down I congratulated their staff.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    Air India is on its last leg ...

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  • Shankar, Mangalore

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    Hatred towards any thing is bad. Hatred is a poison which engulfs you totally in due course of time.
    You hate BJP, extended to Modi and when both start performing and when you find you will have to bear with them for next two decades, makes you hate everything under them, be it development plans or entities like Air India.
    With one such small incidence, you feel happy and dream the end of Air India!!

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  • Joseph, Qatar

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    Shankar, Mangalore

    Why and when will you stop be a canvasser for BJP?

    Here we are focussed only on Air India Express and you have gone 100 miles further to talk about politics.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    Shankar,
    Writing is on the Wall ...

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  • Rita, Germany

    Wed, Sep 06 2017

    @Shanker mangalore,please be fair,we talk here about Air India travel.and you start immediately jump to politics.we all know since long air india is not what it was service ,and in the first place ,you are not at all sure when you book a air ticket whether you really start and land the place.second their endlos repair programmes ,land somewhere else or just flight cancel.when such escapaden happen,noone is sure and wants to fly with this ,or want to loose his job .It is always risky.These planes are old.

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  • Arun, Bangalore

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    Please don't travel on Air India express . All should start to boycott the airlines till they ensure safety.

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  • Praveen, Mangalore

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    Accident can happen with out anyone fault with any airlines. I always travel by Ar India express and i never had any problems. you dont need to tell others to boycott. If you do not wish to travel that is up to you. Highest people die on rods in India . Then what you are suggesting ? boycott roads.

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  • Ronald D, Udupi

    Tue, Sep 05 2017

    AIE is alright! I travel almost every month and I do not have major issues. Generally service is as good or may be slightly better than private career. You can not help losses is government owned company in India often. Privatization may reduce burden on tax payer.

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