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IndiGo aircraft grounded in Jammu due to technical glitch, fuel leakage, sixth incident in a week

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Another IndiGo’s Airbus 320 (new engine option or neo) was grounded in Jammu on Sunday due to a technical glitch, making it the sixth incident with the neo aircraft in a week.

“The aircraft was to operate flight 6e 559 to Srinagar from Jammu but was grounded due to fuel leak from engine 1 after which the plane was grounded,” New Delhi based Economic Times reported.

These are among the aircraft not red-flagged by the European or Indian aviation regulator when they recently said A320neos with PW1100 engines (serial number 450 and above) “are more susceptible to inflight shut down”.

Yesterday, less than a week after the aviation regulator grounded eleven A320neos aircraft of IndiGo and GoAir over safety concerns, IndiGo on Sunday withdrew another A320neo due to an engine problem. This grounding raises question over the reliability of 31 Pratt and Whitney (PW) engined A320neos currently operational in India.

In the past one week, three technical problems involving a PW1100 engine powered IndiGo A320neo have occured. The spokesperson did not comment on the other two incidents.

 

 

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