Why a Bangladesh plane that made emergency landing in 2015 is still stuck in Raipur
After years of back and forth with Bangladesh s United Airways, AAI in January began legal process to evict aircraft, which has notched up Rs 1.25 crore in parking dues.
Taran Deol 12 March, 2021 3:48 pm IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: Around 7 pm on 7 August 2015, an aircraft of United Airways, a now-defunct Bangladeshi airline, made an emergency landing at Raipur’s Swami Vivekanand airport after an engine failure on its way from Dhaka to Muscat.
Over five and a half years later, the McDonnell Douglas MD 83 continues to occupy one of the eight parking bays at the Raipur airport. It has notched up parking dues to the tune of Rs 1.25 crore, but no one from the company has arrived to fly it back home despite repeated communications from the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
Officials work in front of the imposing wreckage of One-Two-GO flight 269 in Phuket, Thailand. (AFP)
On the 16th of September 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 flying for Thai budget airline One-Two-GO crashed while attempting to land on the resort island of Phuket. As the plane approached the runway in the midst of a powerful thunderstorm, wind shear forced the pilots to abandon the approach, but during the attempt to climb out, the plane lost altitude and smashed into an embankment alongside the runway, tearing the airplane apart and killing 90 of the 130 passengers and crew. At first, wind shear seemed to be the most likely cause of the crash, which took the lives of tourists and crewmembers from at least 13 countries. But it soon became apparent that the sequence of events was actually rooted in the way the pilots executed the go-around. Their tragic errors during the maneuver led investigators to a series of disturbing revelations about One-Two-GO and its parent company Orient Th