High level inquiry ordered into PM aircraft mishap

A high-level inquiry has been ordered into the mishap involving Prime Ministers special aircraft at the technical area of the airport in New Delhi.

A high-level inquiry has been ordered into the mishap involving Prime Ministers special aircraft at the technical area of the airport here and an Air India loader has been suspended.

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel,who rushed to the airport on learning about the incident,told reporters that both the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Air India would conduct an inquiry.

He said preliminary inquiry has found that the Air India loader was operating the hydraulic lift carrying food items that hit the cargo door of the Air India Boeing 747-400.

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Let the full inquiry report come. Then we will know whether there was anything mala fide in this, he said adding the loader has good experience of having done work relating to several VVIP aircraft.

After all we are all human, he said.

The departure of the aircraft,which was to take off at 1445 hours for Copenhagen,was delayed by about three hours.

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