An Air India Boeing 747-400 aircraft (registration VT-ESM) caught fire on a taxiway at Mumbai earlier today, prompting an emergency evacuation. According to news reports, Air India Flight AI 829 had just pushed back from the gate in preparation for departure on a scheduled flight to Riyadh when the number one engine caught fire. All sixteen crew members and 213 passengers safely evacuated the aircraft using emergency slides. News reports say that 21 individuals suffered minor injuries during the evacuation. The fire was said to have been quickly extinguished, but the aircraft incurred substantial damage.
Several news reports from India attribute the fire to a fuel leak. India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered an investigation of the accident.
Here is a news video, provided by iStream.in, showing Mumbai airport firefighters battling the blaze:
If the video does not play or display properly above, click here to view it on YouTube.
1 comments:
FAA’s “Chief Operating Officer” Henry P. (Hank) Krakowski is a failed corporate sycophant, an ex-commercial pilot - and [thank God for us now] a retired midwestern weekend-warrior aero-stuntmonger with the Illinois-based Lima Lima flight team.
Hank Krakowski's shameless selfish and myopic quest for personal corporate advantage, even if over the human safety of others, got Hank's fellow pilot Keith J. Evans killed. Evans died in a 1999 aerial stunt practice for a Lima Lima airshow, in a mid-air plane crash. Hank produced the show. Hank's deposition transcripts are linked below.
After the crash, Hank Krakowski was then almost immediately thereafter promoted and kicked upstairs to UAL management. Then Hank was kicked sideways through the aero-revolving door right into the Failed Aviation Administration:
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/09/hank-krakowski-gets-named-killer.html
http://removesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/09/greasy-fingers-blind-pilots-reading.html
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/09/sight-challenged-kielbasa-texts-while.html
http://www.HankKrakowski.net
http://www.TheHappyHarbor.com
And now, in Fall 2009, Hank Krakowski is once again purporting to publicly opine on AIR SAFETY issues why, exactly?:
http://www.wikio.com/themes/Hank+Krakowski
And FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt and USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood continue to employ Hank Krakowski as FAA COO, why, exactly?:
http://www.faa.gov/about/key_officials/krakowski/
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NY
Post a Comment