Air India pilots fly plane with wheels out throughout the journey
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NEW DELHI: Air India has grounded two pilots who forgot to retract aircraft landing gear after take off and then flew all the way from Kolkata to Nagpur with the wheels out.
The pilots realised that the wheels had been out all the while only while preparing to land at Nagpur!
While the flight's destination was Mumbai, flying with the wheels out meant flying low and more fuel burn due to which the plane had to land at Nagpur after running low on fuel.
The pilots realised that the wheels had been out all the while only while preparing to land at Nagpur!
The lapse happened on AI 676 that took off from Kolkata last Saturday (July 22) with 99 Mumbai-bound passengers on board.
