A day after an oven aboard one of Air India's muchtouted Dreamliner aircraft "caught fire" in midair, just two months after the national carrier resumed flights on the glitch-hit Boeing 787s, it has been found that it was not the first but the second such incident on that very aircraft within a span of 72 hours.
The same aircraft was flying from New Delhi to New York on June 22 when the oven overheated and a crew member of the flight (AI 115) sustained burns and had to be rushed to a hospital by paramedics at Heathrow airport. An Air India official told Mirror, "The crew member has toasting bread for a passenger. But when he opened the over, hot water gushed out instead."
Captain Nivedita Bhasin, who was commanding the fligh contacted the Heathrow Airport where paramedics were on standby. Upon landing, the crew member was rushed to a hospital.
In her flight report, Captain Bhasin had mentioned the faulty oven. "A repeat of the incident just proves that the report was overlooked," a cabin crew member said. Not just was the oven left unchecked, the first-aid kit was not refilled with ointments and creams that had been used up in the New York-bound flight.
Read News In Full 27/07/13 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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