Commuters were held up for about 20 minutes Monday when the token fare collection system malfunctioned at the Noida Sector 18 Metro station in Delhi’s eastern suburb.
‘The automatic fare collection machines stopped working due to a technical glitch. As a result, people were stuck inside the station for quite some time. A team of [...]
Ranchi, Dec 17 (IANS) A helicopter carrying polling officials had to make an emergency landing in Palamau district of Jharkhand Thursday, police sources said.
‘A helicopter carrying polling officials developed some technical snag and landed 100 metres away from airstrip on a farm land in Palamau district. There was some problem in fuel tank of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17(ANI): Minister of State for Civil Aviation (Independent Charge) Praful Patel on Thursday said that a person has been suspended and a high level inquiry has been ordered into the damage caused to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s special aircraft “Agra” shortly before [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s flight Thursday to Copenhagen where he is expected to attend the UN climate summit has been delayed by a couple of hours due to a minor technical snag.
Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said the Air India flight that was expected to take off at [...]
Kolkata, Nov 23 (IANS) An Air India (AI) flight bound for Myanmar’s Yangon Monday morning was delayed for several hours at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport after a technical snag accidentally caused by a Buddhist monk passenger, an official said.
‘A Buddhist monk who boarded the flight, IC-727, was innocently fiddling with the over-wing [...]
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Delhi Metro’s Dwarka to Noida line went haywire Saturday morning till noon. Hundreds of passengers where stuck when power supply failed. Consequently after long delays many commuters waiting on platforms took a refund on their tickets and opted for other means of transport.
In the second incident of its kind in [...]
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) An inordinate delay of nearly 30 minutes on the Dwarka-Noida metro route Saturday morning caught people unaware, leading to snaking queues in the metro stations. Tired of waiting, a number of commuters sought refund of their tickets and took other conveyances for their onward journey.
According to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation [...]
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader V.K. Malhotra Wednesday wrote to Delhi Metro Chief E. Sreedharan suggesting measures for improvement in Delhi Metro services which according to him has made the ‘experience of riding on them worse than Blueline buses’.
In the letter he said that ‘while the Metro has brought a [...]
Mumbai, Nov 11 (IANS) A Gulf Air aircraft with 222 passengers on board made an emergency landing here Wednesday following a technical snag, and then got stuck on the runway for a while, an airport official said. No casualties were reported.
The Airbus A-320 flight GF-057 took off from here for Bahrain at 10.32 a.m. but [...]
Mumbai, Nov 11 (IANS) A Gulf Air aircraft made an emergency landing here Wednesday following a technical snag, and then got stuck on the runway for a while, an airport official said.
The Airbus A-320 flight GF-057 took off from here for Bahrain at 10.32 a.m. but returned after 50 minutes after a technical problem was [...]
Jammu, Oct 30 (IANS) One person was killed as an Indian Air Force MI-17 helicopter carrying four people crashed into the Chenab river in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday afternoon, police said.
The chopper went down into the waters of the Chenab near Assar, about 150 km northeast of Jammu. The body recovered is [...]
Jammu, Oct 30 (IANS) A helicopter of the Indian Army crashed into the waters of Chenab river in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir Friday afternoon, police said.
‘The wreckage of the crashed chopper has been sighted, but there is no sign of its occupants,’ a police officer who reached the spot told IANS over the [...]
Kozhikode (Kerala), Oct 4 (IANS) A rat has possibly done it, again. An Air India flight to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia was held up here Sunday, possibly due to a rat in the aircraft. But an airline official blamed the delay on a technical snag, and said a replacement flight will be made [...]
Paradip (Orissa), Sep 11 (ANI): A cargo ship carrying around 25,000 tonnes of iron ore to China capsized off Orissa coast.
MV ‘Black Rose,’ a vessel operating under the Mongolian flag, capsized 5-6 km off the harbour after it had loaded iron ore from Paradip port.
The vessel [...]
New Delhi, Sep 10(ANI): An Air India flight had to make an emergency landing at the Indira Gandhi international airport in the national capital on Thursday, after its pilot reported a technical snag.
According to reports, the AI flight 3307 from [...]
Mumbai, Sep 5 (ANI): A four-member in-house committee has been set up to probe the Air India fire incident that took place at Mumbai International Airport on Friday.
Nearly 200 passengers were onboard on Riyadh bound Air India flight (AI-829) while the aircraft’s [...]
Mumbai, Sep.4 (ANI): Aviation experts on Friday said that a fuel leak from the wings of an Air India flight caused one of the engines to catch fire.
Ruling out the possibility of a technical snag leading to the grounding of the aircraft at Mumbai Airport [...]
Mumbai, Sep.4 (ANI): The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered the derostering of the maintenance engineer who was working on Air India flight 829 after it developed a fuel leak.
The DGCA has ordered a detailed probe into the fuel leak from the wings of an Air India [...]
Mumbai, Sep.4 (ANI): At least 21 passengers suffered minor injuries as they were being evacuated from a grounded Air India flight.
The evacuation was done through inflatable slides. What was most shocking was the fact that the evacuation was carried out on the side of the plane where one of its engine’s caught fire.
The news of [...]
New Delhi, Aug 12 (ANI): The seized North Korean ship MV Mu San is being brought to Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh where central security agencies and nuclear scientists will carry out an extensive search of the vessel.
The MV Mu San was intercepted off the Andaman [...]
