Lucknow: Afternoon flight with 148 passengers heading to Lucknow suffered from “strike bird” while taking off from the new Delhi airport on Tuesday.
After 47 minutes of long flights, the plane landed safely at Charan Singh Chaudhary International Airport, but hours later it was based on aircraft engineers who participated in close inspections.
In anonymously, the official source of Lucknow airport, flight pilots affected the bird strike near the lower left airplane at 2,600 feet while climbing on Delhi air after taking off from Indira Gandhi Airport.
“After a hit, the pilot felt a burning odor in the cockpit and cabin for five to six minutes.
However, the Dashboard panel / aircraft instrument showed normal reading to show aircraft health, therefore the journey continued,” said The Source.
He said, “The pilot did not tell air traffic control about the bird’s attack while landing at Lucknow airport around 14:51.
Only an hour later, the land handling staff informed the Lucknow airport authority about the incident, after maintenance of airplanes where engineers (Ame ) Starting an airplane inspection.
“Inspections that are not scheduled to delay flights for Delhi are bound by 117 passengers.
“Initially Ame was expected to clean the plane to take off at 8pm, but soon the air of doubts was cleaned and the 150-seat of the Airbus A320-232 was declared unworthy (airplane) for departure immediately.
At 7:53 pm an empty plane was taken from New Delhi and It flew with all 117 passengers at 8:57 a.m., “the source said.
According to Lucknow airport officials, “Immediately it was not clear whether the pilot was informed about the incident to the new Delhi Airport traffic controller, because they did not inform Lucknow ATC.”