Air India has actually de-rostered 3 cabin staff participants for a wrong technique in unlocking of a Boeing 777 airplane that resulted in the auto-deployment of the emergency situation slides.
The occurrence occurred with the Boeing 777 airplane at Bangalore flight terminal after it landed from San Francisco on September 15.
“The door of Air India`s Boeing 777 aircraft that operated flight Al 176 from San Francisco to Bangalore on September 15 was opened in armed mode when the aircraft arrived at Bangalore airport. This is a serious safety violation,” a resource from the airline company pointed at Bangalore flight terminal informed noontime.
“As a result of this, the emergency slides automatically got deployed,” the resource included.
Another resource at Banglore flight terminal, that existed while of the occurrence, informed noontime, “Engineers were later called to remove the emergency slides.”
An elderly resource specified, “Three cabin crew members have been de-rostered for the lapse and an internal probe has been ordered. The damaged emergency slides had to be replaced with a new set, resulting in the Bangalore-San Francisco flight getting delayed.”
In a declaration, an Air India representative stated, “On September 15, the crew operating flight 176 from San Francisco to Bangalore reported a technical issue with one of the doors not opening appropriately upon landing. The issue was promptly attended to and passengers disembarked, and the aircraft was subsequently cleared for operation.”
Further, the airline company stated there was no damages to the aerobridge and included that “regulatory authorities have been informed as per procedure.”
