Akasa budget plane was damaged by a bird..!? Details inside..!
Earlier this month, an Akasa air flight from ahmedabad to Bengaluru was canceled due to technical reasons. The Akasa air flight bound for delhi was damaged by a bird strike, according to India's aviation regulatory authorities. Akasa B-737-8(Max), one of the recently launched budget airlines, VT-YAF-operated flight QP-1333 was flying from ahmedabad to delhi this morning when a bird struck the aircraft at an altitude of 1900 feet. The Directorate of Civil Aviation said that the radome was damaged after landing in Delhi. After repairing the damage, the aircraft resumes its flight to the next destination. The incident has raised doubts about the quality of the flight among passengers.
Akasa Air's first commercial flight took off last August. The CEO of the company is Vinay Dubey. Earlier, accepting the request of the passengers on their flights, they said that they will start the service of taking pets including dogs and cats on flights in the coming November. Passengers can carry pets up to a maximum weight of 7 kg. He said pets weighing more than that can be brought on cargo flights. Pets up to 32kg can be carried in the cargo.