According to sources a SpiceJet technician died in kolkata after the hydraulic landing gear door of an aircraft closed on him early Wednesday morning. Meanwhile he was carrying out maintenance work on the aircraft at the NSCBI airport in kolkata. Furthermore Rohit bhushan Pandey, a trainee technician, died at 1.45 a.m. The airport official told "He was doing maintenance work on a Q400 aircraft, and accidentally the landing gear door closed on him. He died on the spot".
Furthermore the Directorate General of Civil Aviation will carry out an inquiry into the incident, the official said. Apparently a SpiceJet spokesperson said Pandey was working on the main landing gear wheel well area on the right side of the aircraft, which was parked in bay no. 32 when the accident took place. A spokesperson said "Extremely saddened to share that our technician rohit Pandey passed away last night in an unfortunate incident at kolkata airport"?
SpiceJet said in its statement to the media "Inadvertently, the main landing gear hydraulic door closed and he got stuck in between the hydraulic door flaps. The Hydraulic doors were broken to rescue Mr Pandey but he was declared dead. The entire SpiceJet family stands together in grief in this unfortunate incident".
