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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Monday, 10 October 2011
Kingfisher plane suffers tyre burst, all passengers safe
Thirteen passengers and a four-member crew had a close shave on Saturday when a Kingfisher aircraft suffered tyre burst while landing at the Kamaraj domestic airport in Chennai.
The flight was bound for Tiruchirapalli but failed to land there due to bad weather and heavy rain. When the plane tried to land back in Chennai, one of its tyres burst and it got stuck on the runway.
Airport authorities confirmed that none of the thirteen passengers and a four-member crew suffered any injuries. Officials also said that the plane has a capacity to carry forty-eight passengers, but there were only thirteen passengers in the fateful flight.
Airport operations remained closed for more than two hours, till 02:30, as the plane couldn’t be immediately moved off the runway.
Detailing the incident, AAI Airport Director E P Hareendranathan said, “The plane was stranded on the runway till the tyres were replaced.”
The incident forced authorities to divert an incoming Lufthansa flight to Bangalore. Five flights scheduled for departure were also delayed.
Hareendranathan said that DGCA would launch a probe to find out the cause for the incident.
Friday, 7 October 2011
Saturday, 24 September 2011
PAC to examine CAG reports on KG Basin, Air India
NEW DELHI: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee today decided to take up for examination the government auditor's reports on KG basin and the performance of Air India.
The PAC, at a meeting chaired by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, decided to start examining the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) performance audits of the 'Hydrocarbaon Production Sharing Contracts' and 'Civil Aviation in India'.
The Committee is yet to draw a schedule for examining the two reports.
The two reports were tabled in Parliament on September 8, the last day of the six-week long monsoon session.
The CAG had sharply criticised Reliance Industries and the Oil Ministry for violation of contract over the showpiece KG-D6 gas block and called for revamping the current profit- sharing arrangement that reduces government revenues.
However, the audit report does not quantify how much the government lost when Reliance hiked capital expenditure at the nation's biggest gas field from $ 2.4 billion proposed in 2004 to $ 8.8 billion estimate in 2006.
The CAG had also come down hard on the Civil Aviation Ministry over the decision to acquire 111 planes for Air India through debt, calling it "a recipe for disaster" and also on the merger of the two erstwhile state-run carriers.
It had described the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines as "ill-timed" contending that the exercise was undertaken "strangely from the top (rather than by the perceived needs of both these airlines), with inadequate validation of the financial benefits".
The PAC also decided to take up the matter of Indirect Taxes.
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