New Delhi, September 07: Air India Express seriously lacked engineering staff and did not have a permanent doctor at the Mangalore airport to conduct pre-flight medical checks on the pilots and the cabin crew operating flights from there, the Court of Inquiry on Mangalore air crash was informed today.
“We are short of staff and for engineering work and spares we are totally dependent on the Air India,” a senior Air India Express official said before the COI here.
The six-member Court of Inquiry was set up to find out the causes of the crash of Air India Express flight IX-812 at Mangalore airport on May 22 while returning from Dubai, killing 158 people.
–Agencies