Month: June 2012

Guwahati, June 10 NNN : An Air India flight carrying 51 people had a narrow escape this morning when one of the nose wheels of the plane fell off shortly after it took off from Silchar airport.
Altogether the aircraft was carrying 46 passengers, two pilots, two air-hostesses and an engineer. The Air India flight however miraculously landed safely at Guwahati Airport after one hour.
The ATR9760 aircraft took off from Silchar Airport at around 9am, said the officials of the Air Traffic Control. The ground staff there noticed an object falling and found it to be a nose wheel. ATC Guwahati was subsequently informed.
One of the officials at the office of Air Traffic Control in Guwahati said, “We asked pilot Urmila Yadav to fly at low pass (after the aircraft wheels are out for landing) so that the ground staff could have a look at the aircraft from close and detect the failure,” he added. “We then instructed her to circle above the airport for an hour to use up as much fuel as possible. This is done in emergency situations to minimise the chances of an aircraft catching fire if it crash-lands.”
The ATC officer added that Yadav was instructed to land the nose wheel as late as she could in order to avoid any catastrophe. “She did some tremendous piloting, handled the situation well and landed safely around 10:30am,” he said.
But the passengers went through the most miserable hour in their lives before the ATR landed. Two women fainted while the crisis situation made an asthmatic old man breathless.
Sumanta Chaliha who was of the passengers said, “We became suspicious when the airhostesses started giving safety demonstration for the second time 45 minutes after take-off. When I asked one of them if anything was wrong, she said they were expecting emergency landing. We panicked when a cabin crew (engineer) began shifting some suitcases from the cockpit to the aircraft’s rear.”
Officials of the Air Traffic Control said shifting the weight to the rear of as aircraft was the ‘done thing’ when problem arises with nose wheels.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/ai-plane-forced-emergency-landing/

Mail News Service
Kolkata, June 10 : The Central Bureau Of Investigation has arrested a S.K. Satyarthi , Chief General Manager rank Officer of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) working in Telecom Factory, Kolkata Circle, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.3.25 lakh from the Complainant.
The complainant (a supplier) has alleged in his complaint that the accused was harassing him by getting his supplied materials and tender documents rejected on flimsy grounds. The accused was demanding money from him for doing his business smoothly within his jurisdiction.
CBI registered a case and laid a trap. The accused was caught red handed while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 3.25 lakhs from the complainant at a hotel in Kolkata yesterday night.
In the follow up searches conducted at the residence of the accused, 15 passbooks in various names, 20 debit cards, various documents relating to investment, four gold biscuits etc. were found.
These are being scrutinized for further investigation.
The accused was produced today in the court of CJM Alipore, Kolkata and was remanded to judicial custody.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/cbi-arrests-chief-general-manager-of-bsnl-for-accepting-bribe/