Flying rats and other air scares cloud India’s aviation industry

[marmar]

from the Toronto Star:



NEW DELHI—Pilots on an Air India flight from Mumbai to Saudi Arabia last August had an unexpected visitor in the cockpit: a rat.

The rodent crawled over the first officer’s leg and disappeared into the plane’s avionics bay. The aircraft arrived safely and was later fumigated.

Two months earlier, during a Pawan Hans helicopter flight in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, a door opened at 2,000 feet and a cabin attendant was sucked out and killed.

Also last summer, a SpiceJet flight from Delhi to Ahmedabad lost contact with air traffic controllers for 10 minutes after it flew through precipitation. And an AirAsia services officer was killed after her arm was severed in a bizarre accident on the ramp leading to a plane. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1022558--flying-rats-and-other-air-scares-cloud-india-s-aviation-industry

[dhill926]

1. and I thought Delta was bad............

sheesh!

[somone]

2. Worst part: "Pilots who paid bribes to obtain their pilot licences"