Stone hits and damges Air India flight

New Delhi, Dec 28: A stone hit and damaged the windshield of an Air India flight in the IGI airport on Sunday, Dec 28 evening.

The Mumbai-bound AI plane IC 836 with 162 passengers onboard was hit by the stone blown away by the jet blast of another aircraft while taxiing.

Airport sources said that the AI flight was taxiing from Bay number 13 for the runway, while a Jet Airways aircraft which was on Bay number 15 was taxiing ahead of the AI plane when the incident took place at around 5 pm.

Suddenly the Jet pilot increased the thrust of the engine which resulted in the damage of one of the windshields of Airbus 321 of the national carrier, they added.

Speaking on the incident, an Air India official informed that the Mumbai flight was aborted and during the inspection it was found that the windshield was hit by some foreign object (stones) probably lying on the taxi way.

The passengers had to wait for two and half hours till a new aircraft was brought in at 7:50 pm.

DGCA is investigating the incident, which has given raise to several questions on the state of airports in the country.

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