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B-787 aircrafts safe, company keeping watch: Boeing
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SME Times News Bureau | 31 Oct, 2013
US aircraft major Boeing said Wednesday its latest technologically
advanced B-787 is a safe aircraft and the company is keeping a watch
over every problem faced by the plane.
"It's a machine, we did
our best to design it, but something happens... But it is a safe
airplane, it has never caused issues with the safety of passengers,"
said Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president, sales, Asia Pacific and
India, Boeing Commercial Aircraft.
"We have a operations control
centre in Seattle which monitors every 787 aircraft in flight. We get to
know about what is happening to every 787 in flight."
Keskar
was replying to a question over a large belly panel of an Air India's
787 which fell off as the plane landed at Bangalore airport on October
12. The aircraft had taken-off from New Delhi carrying around 150
passengers.
Keskar further said the belly panel which fell-off
during landing at Bangalore airport never endangered the life of
passengers and that a due investigation process is underway.
"There
has been misinformation about the incident. First the access panel fell
off at the Bangalore airport. Second, the panel has been recovered and
third, it never put the lives of passengers at risk,” Keskar said.
“It was an access panel, which can be removed to gain access or check something and not a pressurized panel."
Currently,
aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), along
with Air India and Boeing have been probing the incident.
“We are
in constant touch with Air India. We have have a (Boeing) team which is
stationed here,” Keskar said adding that not just Boeing officials but
the company's vendors have been roped in to investigate such incident.
Boeing
most modern aircraft has been facing many problems, in January, 2013,
the DGCA grounded all Air India's 787 aircraft after an FAA (Federal
Aviation Administration) directive to stop operations of all such planes
delivered so far to various airlines.
After nearly four months and modification to the aircraft's batteries the DGCA allowed the plane to be operated again.
Air
India had booked 27 Boeing 787s in a mega-deal in 2006. It currently
has nine planes delivered and the tenth aircraft is expected to be
handed over by early next month. All the aircraft are expected to be
delivered by 2016.
Even the deliveries of the aircraft was
delayed due to certain design and production issues. The aircraft were
scheduled to be delivered from September 2008 to October 2011.
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