A-320s As Dangerous

If you fly Air India, there's a good chance that you've been on the sort of plane that made an emergency landing in Delhi on Monday evening. The Airbus A320, is a warhorse for the airline, with nearly 60 of these planes currently in service. The glaring problem, according to pilots who fly with the national carrier, is that 15 of them are far too ...

The type of plane that needed an emergency landing in Delhi on Monday night was described by pilots months ago as "lethal snag prone" aircraft of Air India. NDTV has accessed a letter sent in March by a pilots' association warning aviation regulator DGCA about the dangers of using elderly versions of the A-320, a model widely used and sold across ...

If you fly Air India, there's a good chance that you've been on the sort of plane that made an emergency landing in Delhi on Monday evening. The Airbus A320, is a warhorse for the airline, with nearly 60 of these planes currently in service. The glaring problem, according to pilots who fly with the national carrier, is that 15 of them are far too ...

The type of plane that needed an emergency landing in Delhi on Monday night was described by pilots months ago as "lethal snag prone" aircraft of Air India. NDTV has accessed a letter sent in March by a pilots' association warning aviation regulator DGCA about the dangers of using elderly versions of the A-320, a model widely used and sold across ...