Indigos Bangkok-Mumbai flight suffers from tail strike; Dgca to order sin

Mumbai, August 16 (PTI), a indigo plane running its Bangkok-Mumbai flight, had a tail strike on Saturday while trying to land here at the airport here, who asked the aircraft safety regulator DGCA to recommend an investigation in the incident, sources said. Both pilots of the Airbus A321Neo were derived pending investigation, they said. “On August 16, an Indigo Airbus A321 aircraft tail touched the runway while performing a low-height round due to unfavorable weather in Mumbai,” Indigo spokeswoman said in a statement. The airline Flight 6th 1060 leaves at 12.12 hours (local time) at 12.12 o’clock (local time) at the scheduled departure time of 11.40 hours (local time) and eventually ended up at 3.04 pm at Mumbai Airport at the scheduled arrival time of 2.50 hours, as per flight track website FlighTradar24.com. “After that, the plane carried out a different approach and landed safely,” the airline said. “We are going to undertake an investigation under this incident,” a senior directorate -general of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official told PTI. Heavy dumping shower pumbled Mumbai and its suburbs, with some parts scoring more than 200 mm of rainfall in the small hours of Saturday, affecting the low -lying areas and affecting the transport services, including the movement of local trains and flights. Incessed rain continued in the morning parts of the city with occasional heavy proverbs. The rainy rain started around 1am and continued in the early hours of the morning, which weakened in low -lying areas of the western and eastern suburbs. According to the IMD, several parts of Mumbai recorded more than 200 mm of rainfall between 8.30am and Saturday. According to sources, there were as many as 15 rounds (including the indigo flight with tail strike) Saturday between midnight until 06:00 at the Mumbai airport. In addition, two flights, one from Air India and Indigo, were derived to other airports and later ended up in Mumbai, the source said. After the standard protocol, the aircraft will undergo the necessary checks/ repairs and regulatory clearance before resuming operations, Indigo said in the statement. “We are making all efforts to reduce the subsequent impact on our operations as a result of this incident,” the Indigo spokeswoman added to the statement.