Air India Flight 101

101 passengers were stranded at Kolkata airport early this morning after a water cart operated by Air India rammed into a Qatar Airways aircraft at 220 am.

"Had this landing approach not worked, we would realistically have been left with enough fuel for only one more attempt to put the plane down" says Captain Rustom Palia, the senior Air India Commander at the controls of the Air India Boeing 777 that landed in Newark on September 11 despite multiple systems failing on board.

A 70-year-old woman passenger on wheel chair was not allowed to board her Air India flight to New York from Mumbai via Delhi allegedly due to "over booking."

The scheduling of international flights, including those to new destinations, which Air India will fly this winter has been affected as the fate of sacked 101 pilots is still hanging in balance. The availability of the exact number of pilots is a crucial factor in deciding how many flights an airline would be able to operate.

101 passengers were stranded at Kolkata airport early this morning after a water cart operated by Air India rammed into a Qatar Airways aircraft at 220 am.

"Had this landing approach not worked, we would realistically have been left with enough fuel for only one more attempt to put the plane down" says Captain Rustom Palia, the senior Air India Commander at the controls of the Air India Boeing 777 that landed in Newark on September 11 despite multiple systems failing on board.

A 70-year-old woman passenger on wheel chair was not allowed to board her Air India flight to New York from Mumbai via Delhi allegedly due to "over booking."

The scheduling of international flights, including those to new destinations, which Air India will fly this winter has been affected as the fate of sacked 101 pilots is still hanging in balance. The availability of the exact number of pilots is a crucial factor in deciding how many flights an airline would be able to operate.