A rough start

The occurrence involving a pushback yank and a mint Serene Air Boeing 737-800 during Benazir International airfield on Monday 6th Jan has turn provender for a swindling theorists. Both a yank and a aircraft were damaged. The aircraft to a untrained eye appears to have suffered extraneous damage, though it is substantially done of combination materials that will need dilettante repair, and it is during slightest probable that there is inner repairs as well. The nosewheel section competence need deputy and a aircraft is approaching to be grounded for weeks. Fixing this glitch competence cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It competence be approaching that insurers are already on-site and a airline will be looking to redeem costs from a airfield management.

As distant as a swindling theories go they were debunked by pkaviation.com as good as attention reserve experts commenting on cinema in a open domain. The accord appears to be that this was an avoidable collision and that improper apparatus — a towtug — competence have been deployed. The shop-worn aircraft was one of 3 in a Serene Air swift that during a cadence has mislaid a third of a operational capacity, and an airline orator who pronounced that repairs competence take a week was being extravagantly upbeat. The airline got a looseness in Oct 2016 and flew a initial operations on 29th Jan 2017.

The occurrence points adult a hapless need for a new Islamabad airfield to be commissioned. The stream Benazir Bhutto Airport now has 4 domestic carriers handling in a space that is increasingly swarming — and copiousness of event for mishaps such as this to occur. The airfield has been referred to as small some-more than a saved ‘Lari adda’ and while that is something of a widen a analogy is not wholly offbeam. There are confident reports that a new airfield will be prepared for operation by a center of this year, though pivotal infrastructure, quite highway links to Islamabad, have nonetheless to be completed. This hapless occurrence was cock-up not conspiracy, and sadly some-more of a same competence be expected.

Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 8th, 2017.

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