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India: the A-320 aircraft from Air India, "Too old"?

New Delhi, India - To say this, the pilots union in a letter addressed to the Indian Authority for the Civil Aviation

"The classic A-320 aircraft which are 26 years old are being operated with repetitive snags endangering flight safety. DGCA should not permit Air India to operate these letal snag prone classic aircraft". This is what we can read in the letter addressed to the Authority for Civil Aviation (DGCA), by the union of the Indian Commercial Pilots (ICPA). Reading the letter, immediately obvious is the...

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Rome, Italy, 03/30/2015 17:10
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