Vimanav From India, joined Jul 2003, 1470 posts, RR: 20 Posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 3052 times:
A Kuwait Airways A300-605 reg. 9K-AMC on a scheduled flight from KWI-DAC as KU281 made an emergency landing a few minutes ago (0419IST) at DEL's IGI Airport. The aircraft declared a full emergency about 40 minutes ago after hydraulic leakage. Nosewheel steering is not going to be available and aircraft is parked in the middle of rwy 28. DEL main runway can expect to be closed till they tow her out. Aircraft is carrying 190 pax plus crew.
Thank God for a safe landing after what has been a particularly terrible few days for aviation.
rgds//Vimanav
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Vimanav From India, joined Jul 2003, 1470 posts, RR: 20 Reply 2, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2794 times:
Steerability is lost due to the hydraulic leakage. Aircraft has been towed out to the bay. AI has been unable to spare engineers to check up the aircraft. Somebody will fly down from KWI to do the inspection and we should have a clearer picture tomorrow. Meanwhile pax are booked on AI DEL/DAC tomorrow. Surprisingly they had 214 seats available in economy on the B777. So much for loads!
rgds//Vimanav
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CV580Freak From Bahrain, joined Jul 2005, 1033 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2741 times:
* AI has been unable to spare engineers to check up the aircraft. Somebody will fly down from KWI to do the inspection and we should have a clearer picture tomorrow.
* Meanwhile pax are booked on AI DEL/DAC tomorrow. Surprisingly they had 214 seats available in economy on the B777.
Well well, no AI engineers available but AI come up with 214 spare seats.......
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CO7e7 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 2848 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2724 times:
It's good to know they landed safely. Please keep us informed as to what's going to happen in the near future (after the inspection)
Vimanav From India, joined Jul 2003, 1470 posts, RR: 20 Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2605 times:
Quoting CV580Freak (Reply 3): Well well, no AI engineers available but AI come up with 214 spare seats.......
AI provides technical handling agent for several airlines at DEL airport. This section does roaring business for AI. On the other hand the availability of seats has nothing to do with the engineers being available as its purely a commercial issue. DEL/DAC is in any case not a very heavily travelled sector and though KU knew that they'd get some seats, an availability of 214 in Economy actually came as a surprise.
Quoting CO7e7 (Reply 4): Please keep us informed as to what's going to happen in the near future (after the inspection)
Wilco...
rgds//Vimanav
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HAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31201 posts, RR: 58 Reply 6, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2593 times:
Quoting CV580Freak (Reply 3): Well well, no AI engineers available but AI come up with 214 spare seats
Theres no connection.In fact if it was $$$.Then providing Technical help would have assured more.
The Hydraulics that also powered the Steering System leaked out I guess,rendering the Steering INOP.
Thanks for the News Pran....Any update.
regds
MEL
Cedarjet From United Kingdom, joined exactly 14 years ago today! , 7708 posts, RR: 55 Reply 7, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2573 times:
Maybe DEL/DAC is usually a smaller plane (AI Express 737, A310) and was upgraded to a 777 because of the demand from the stranded Kuwaiti pax?
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Karan69 From India, joined Oct 2004, 2785 posts, RR: 19 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 2501 times:
Quoting CV580Freak (Reply 3): Well well, no AI engineers available but AI come up with 214 spare seats.......
Quoting Cedarjet (Reply 7): Maybe DEL/DAC is usually a smaller plane (AI Express 737, A310) and was upgraded to a 777 because of the demand from the stranded Kuwaiti pax?
No mate this is the flight that continuoes to LHR via CCU,,, DEL-DAC-CCU-LHR.
777way From Pakistan, joined Dec 2005, 5200 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 2484 times:
Quoting Karan69 (Reply 8): No mate this is the flight that continuoes to LHR via CCU,,, DEL-DAC-CCU-LHR.
So DEL-DAC leg is just that and does not carry LHR bound passengers right? because it would be insane fro DEL-LHR bound passengers to put up with this routing.
Vimanav From India, joined Jul 2003, 1470 posts, RR: 20 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 2450 times:
Quoting 777way (Reply 9): So DEL-DAC leg is just that and does not carry LHR bound passengers right? because it would be insane fro DEL-LHR bound passengers to put up with this routing.
You're getting the idea.
Moreover why would anyone (unless its somebody like me) not want to take the plethora of non-stop carriers such as AI, BA, 9W and VS to LON out of DEL.
A team of 4 KU engineers are coming in by KU381 early tomorrow. My feeling is that they would probably do a temporary repair and ferry the aircraft back to KWI for final repairs. This has thrown a spanner in the KU aircraft rotation works. The A300 which was supposed to operate into DEL tonight/early morning tomorrow is now being operated with an A310.
rgds//Vimanav
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HAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31201 posts, RR: 58 Reply 11, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2309 times:
Quoting Vimanav (Reply 10): My feeling is that they would probably do a temporary repair and ferry the aircraft back to KWI for final repairs. This
If its a Hydraulic leak.It would probably be a Line rupture,seal or a Component leak.The Rectification would be Replacement.Does not look a Big delay.
Any Update.
regds
MEL
Nimish From India, joined Feb 2005, 3078 posts, RR: 9 Reply 12, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2241 times:
Quoting Vimanav (Reply 2): Meanwhile pax are booked on AI DEL/DAC tomorrow. Surprisingly they had 214 seats available in economy on the B777
Wow! That's a lot of empty seats on AI!
So what happens to the pax (in terms of baggage and visas)? Do they get to collect their bags, or do they need to fend for themselves? And how long does it take them to get Indian visas (or are their passports held by the airline or Immigration authorities?)?
Vimanav From India, joined Jul 2003, 1470 posts, RR: 20 Reply 16, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day ago) and read 1914 times:
The aircraft finally departed 13JUL DEL-KWI as ferry at 1855Z after repairs were carried out and hydraulics were declared serviceable.
Quoting Nimish (Reply 12): So what happens to the pax (in terms of baggage and visas)? Do they get to collect their bags, or do they need to fend for themselves? And how long does it take them to get Indian visas (or are their passports held by the airline or Immigration authorities?)?
Passengers were accommodated at the Centaur after immigration clearance with passports held by the airline. In line with standard procedures they were taken care of. Passengers were discouraged from venturing out as the city was on high alert after the BOM blasts and the last thing the airline wanted was to have passengers especially foreigners without travel documents out on their own. Bags were kept in the containers itself. However all the baggage was Xrayed and identified by passengers in line with AI procedures before acceptance.
Quoting Tariqrizvi (Reply 13): Thank God is was a safe landing & Airport is operational
The aircraft was cleared from the runway without much delay and towed to a remote bay. No disruptions whatsoever also due to the fact that it came in at a relatively peaceful hour.
Quoting HAWK21M (Reply 14): A310 is capable of Landing with a System Hydraulic Failure.Theres always Redundancy.
Yes, but they only followed procedures which directed them to land at the first available airport in case of such a failure. BTW aircraft was an A300-600. It would not have taken so long if AI engineers had agreed to check and repair the aircraft. Since this was not the case, we had to wait 24hrs for KU engineers to come on the scheduled DEL flight, identify the problem and repair it, hence the rather long AOG.
Quoting Nimish (Reply 15): Also - what happens to the pax booked on the return DAC - KWI flight? Were they accomodated on an alternate carrier or have they been placed on hold?
DAC - KWI passengers were given options. Those who urgently needed to go were transferred to other airlines while some others were shifted to the next flight.
rgds//Vimanav
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HAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 31201 posts, RR: 58 Reply 17, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 1893 times:
Quoting Vimanav (Reply 16): we had to wait 24hrs for KU engineers to come on the scheduled DEL flight, identify the problem and repair it, hence the rather long AOG
Pran.Why do you say "We had to wait".
Any Idea what the Replacement part was.
regds
MEL
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