An aircraft which belongs to AirIndia has been crashed at Begumpet airport this morning. This happened when a crane is transporting an Airbus 320 on Monday.
This happened due to lack of proper planning, and the police has no prior information about this transportation.
A crane service company called Durga crane service is responsible for this accident and this company has not done such operation before. Anyhow the police booked a case against Air India and Durga crane service.
The wings of the aircraft were not seperated at the time of transportation.The CTE, Directorof Air India said that the ‘main body of the craft itself weighs about 20 tonns’. The craft should be seperated before the transportation.
Mr V.N. Bharat Reddy, director, aviation, Telangana state government, said” the safest way to transport a decommissioned aircraft is to dismantle it. “A standard operating procedure with route map should have been prepared,”he said.Aviation historian P. Anuradha Reddy said it was irresponsible and dangerous to carry even an empty aircraft in this manner. “The only way is to detach wings and put the fuselage on a flat-bed trailer,” she added.