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Air India's defunct Airbus aircraft crashes in Hyderabad

By FnF Desk | PUBLISHED: 10, Apr 2016, 12:33 pm IST | UPDATED: 11, Apr 2016, 15:34 pm IST

Air India's defunct Airbus aircraft crashes in Hyderabad Hyderabad: In what could be termed as a freak accident, a crane carrying Air India's defunct aircraft has crashed on the boundary wall of a private property abutting Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad on Sunday morning. The crane and the aircraft were damaged but luckily, there were no casualties in the incident.

According to the ToI report, the incident happened at 6.30 am when Air India officials were transporting the defunct Airbus A320 aircraft from the Begumpet Airport hangar to their training academy (Central Training Establishment) nearby.

Air India authorities wanted to use the aircraft in training the flight attendants, engineers, pilots and aviation security personnel.

As it was first such operation in the country, to execute it, Air India officials sought permission from the Begumpet Airport authorities and made a gap in the rear boundary wall to allow the heavy truck carrying the 200 tonne crane holding 70 tonne aircraft in the air to quickly move from the airport to the training establishment.

"There is two to three kilometre distance from the airport hangar to the training academy. The aircraft has to be lifted to certain height and carried in the air to avoid trees and electric poles on the road," North Zone DCP N Prakash Reddy told TOI.

The Air India officials took permission from the Airport, Revenue, police and CPDCL officials to carry out the cumbersome exercise.

The process began at 10 pm on Saturday night and by 5.30 am the truck carrying crane and the aircraft crossed the boundary wall of the airport. "While the heavy truck was moving slowly towards the Air India's training academy, at around 6.30 am, the arm of the crane snapped due to heavy load and the aircraft crashed on the boundary wall of a private property opposite to the airport premises," the DCP said.

After the accident, police blocked the old airport road from Bowenpally to Ferozguda for ordinary traffic. Air India officials began cutting the aircraft into three pieces to carry them separately to the training academy located at Ferozguda.

Bowenpally police have made a General Diary (GD) entry of the incident and if any party lodged a complaint, a case is likely to be registered later.