This Article is From Dec 29, 2011

Passenger coach rams into plane at Mumbai airport

Mumbai: An empty passenger ferry coach rolled forward and rammed into a stationary Go Air plane on Thursday morning at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here, official sources said.

The coach, which belongs to the Jet Airways, was parked at the washing area of the airport and rolled forward into the Go Air Airbus A-320 parked in a remote bay nearby.

The impact damaged the front nose portion of the aircraft, which was also empty when the incident happened around 5 am.

Officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have inspected the aircraft while Jet Airways and Go Air are conducting separate internal inquiries into the freak accident.

The Go Air aircraft, which was scheduled to fly to New Delhi at 6 am, has been grounded till further notice. ll passengers booked on the flight (G8 152) were shifted to alternate flights and there were no disruptions of any kind due to the incident, the officials said.
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