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Canada Standard
a day ago
- General
- Canada Standard
Expert discusses possibility of
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 14 (ANI): Former Deputy Director of the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Saligram J. Murlidhar, called the Ahmedabad plane crash one of the most unfortunate incidents in India's recent history, and raised the possibility of fuel contamination as a major factor behind the tragic incident. Speaking to ANI, Saligram J. Murlidhar said, 'The Ahmedabad plane crash was one of the most unfortunate incidents in Indian recent history. The aircraft is a Boeing Dreamliner. It is one of the most ultramodern aircraft with all the safety precautions, navigation, and it is almost foolproof.' According to Murlidhar, the aircraft carried more than 35 tons of fuel, and its inability to gain altitude suggested a major technical failure. He explained that authorities were trying to locate the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) to analyse the final moments of the flight. 'The first thing they have to do is to locate the Flight Data Recorder (FDR). They have to pull out the memory card from the FDR, mount it on a healthy unit, which can be replayed, and then download the data to a computer to start your analysis. Similarly, you get the data from the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and you try to synchronise those two to see what the conversation that has taken place, and then you try to correlate the root cause of this crash,' Murlidhar explained. Murlidhar ruled out a bird strike as a possibility for both engines failing simultaneously, stating that such an event would not have affected both engines at once. 'If we look into the possibility of both the engines malfunctioning, it cannot be due to a bird strike because if it is due to a bird strike, then you will get some arcing sparking and smoke and both the engines will not encounter the bird strike at the same time,' he noted. The expert suggested that fuel contamination may have been the cause of the crash, as it could lead to a thrust loss or power failure in both engines. 'One of the reasons that can cause thrust loss, power loss, which prevented the aircraft from climbing, is fuel contamination. So if the fuel is contaminated, both engines will behave the same way, and the thrust generated is less, and the aircraft could not sustain the climb rate. It descended and it fell because it contained more than 35 tons of fuel to reach London. The moment it crashed, there was a big, huge fireball,' he added. On Thursday, the Al-171 Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 aeroplane bound for London's Gatwick had crashed shortly after it took off from the Ahmedabad International Airport. The airlines said only one out of the 242 people on board the aircraft survived the crash. The aircraft was piloted by Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a Line Training Captain with 8,200 hours of flying experience, assisted by First Officer Clive Kundar, who had logged 1,100 flying hours. According to Air Traffic Control (ATC), the aircraft departed from Ahmedabad at 1339 IST (0809 UTC) from runway 23. It made a Mayday call to ATC, but thereafter, the aircraft did not respond to the calls. Immediately after departing Runway 23, the aircraft crashed outside the airport perimeter, and heavy black smoke began emanating from the accident site. There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian national on board the crashed plane, airline authorities said. (ANI)
Time of India
a day ago
- General
- Time of India
Expert discusses possibility of "fuel contamination" behind Ahmedabad plane crash
Chennai: Former Deputy Director of the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Saligram J. Murlidhar, called the Ahmedabad plane crash one of the most unfortunate incidents in India's recent history, and raised the possibility of fuel contamination as a major factor behind the tragic incident. Speaking to ANI, Saligram J. Murlidhar said, "The Ahmedabad plane crash was one of the most unfortunate incidents in Indian recent history. The aircraft is a Boeing Dreamliner . It is one of the most ultramodern aircraft with all the safety precautions, navigation, and it is almost foolproof." According to Murlidhar, the aircraft carried more than 35 tons of fuel, and its inability to gain altitude suggested a major technical failure. He explained that authorities were trying to locate the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) to analyse the final moments of the flight. "The first thing they have to do is to locate the Flight Data Recorder (FDR). They have to pull out the memory card from the FDR, mount it on a healthy unit, which can be replayed, and then download the data to a computer to start your analysis. Similarly, you get the data from the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and you try to synchronise those two to see what the conversation that has taken place, and then you try to correlate the root cause of this crash," Murlidhar explained. Live Events Murlidhar ruled out a bird strike as a possibility for both engines failing simultaneously, stating that such an event would not have affected both engines at once. "If we look into the possibility of both the engines malfunctioning, it cannot be due to a bird strike because if it is due to a bird strike, then you will get some arcing sparking and smoke and both the engines will not encounter the bird strike at the same time," he noted. The expert suggested that fuel contamination may have been the cause of the crash, as it could lead to a thrust loss or power failure in both engines. "One of the reasons that can cause thrust loss, power loss, which prevented the aircraft from climbing, is fuel contamination. So if the fuel is contaminated, both engines will behave the same way, and the thrust generated is less, and the aircraft could not sustain the climb rate. It descended and it fell because it contained more than 35 tons of fuel to reach London. The moment it crashed, there was a big, huge fireball," he added. On Thursday, the Al-171 Boeing Dreamliner 787-8 aeroplane bound for London's Gatwick had crashed shortly after it took off from the Ahmedabad International Airport. The airlines said only one out of the 242 people on board the aircraft survived the crash. The aircraft was piloted by Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a Line Training Captain with 8,200 hours of flying experience, assisted by First Officer Clive Kundar, who had logged 1,100 flying hours. According to Air Traffic Control (ATC), the aircraft departed from Ahmedabad at 1339 IST (0809 UTC) from runway 23. It made a Mayday call to ATC, but thereafter, the aircraft did not respond to the calls. Immediately after departing Runway 23, the aircraft crashed outside the airport perimeter, and heavy black smoke began emanating from the accident site. There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese nationals, and one Canadian national on board the crashed plane, airline authorities said.
Hindustan Times
24-04-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
SC evicts tenant, asks to hand over cinema hall to owner after 63 yrs of legal battle
New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday brought "curtains down" on a 63-year-old tenancy dispute by ordering the legal heir of the tenant to hand over the possession of the "Mansarovar Palace" cinema hall in Prayagraj to the kin of the real owner. 'We finally bring the curtains down on this long drawn out litigation concerning the cinema hall. For the reasons stated above, the appeal is allowed and the judgment and order of the high court dated January 9, 2013 in Writ… of 1999 is set aside," a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and K V Viswanathan said. The court granted time till December 31, 2025 to the respondents to vacate the premises and hand over a "peaceful possession" of the suit premises. The same would be "subject to the respondents filing the usual undertaking and clearing all arrears, if any, of rent/use and occupation charges" within four weeks from the date of the verdict. The legal tussle saw two rounds of litigation and finally Atul Kumar Aggarwal, the legal heir of late Muralidhar Aggarwal, won the case and as a result legal heirs of tenant late Mahendra Pratap Kakan will now have to hand over the possession of the cinema hall. The top court set aside a 2013 decision of the Allahabad High Court, which dismissed the eviction plea of the owner's family and upheld an appellate authority's decision allowing the tenant to continue possession of the cinema hall. The dispute stems from a 1952 lease agreement under which the tenant, represented by the late Ram Agya Singh, occupied the cinema premises. Murlidhar purchased the property in 1962 and filed multiple eviction suits over the years, citing bona fide need for the property. Prior litigation under the Uttar Pradesh Rent Control Act of 1947 ended in favour of the tenant, but a fresh application for eviction was filed in 1975 under the newer 1972 Rent Control Act. The prescribed authority initially allowed the eviction, citing genuine personal need. However, this was reversed on appeal, prompting a challenge in the High Court and, eventually, the Supreme Court. Allowing the plea of the owners in the second round, Justice Viswanthan, penning a 24-page judgement, emphasised that the bona fide requirement of a landlord must be "liberally construed." The verdict highlighted that the cinema premises were needed to support the landlord's family, particularly Atul Kumar, the disabled son of Murlidhar, who had no independent means of livelihood. The top court junked the tenant's arguments that the landlord's family was involved in other businesses or had adequate income. The verdict said the claims were unsubstantiated and irrelevant to the legal requirement for proving genuine need.
