An Air India plane stuck underneath a foot overbridge has grow to be the speaking point on social media. Footage that has gone massively viral on the net shows the aircraft wedged below a bridge close to the Delhi airport. The scrapped airplane, which did not have wings, was reportedly getting transported when it got stuck on the Delhi-Gurugram highway.
The airplane did not block all website traffic on the route. In the video, cars can be seen passing on one side of the highway, when the other side seems to be largely blocked by the plane.
The video has been watched and shared thousands of instances on social media and more than messaging platforms like WhatsApp, with several questioning how the aircraft managed to get stuck in the 1st location.
In a statement that Air India shared with ANI journalist Ashoke Raj, the airline stated the aircraft had been deregistered and sold off. It was getting transported by the purchaser on Saturday evening when it got stuck below the foot overbridge.
“This is a detegistered scrapped aircraft of Air India which has been sold off,” the statement study. “This was transported last night by the party. Air India has got no connection whatsoever with the aircraft under any circumstances.”
Statement:
This is a detegisteted scrapped aircraft of Air India which has been sold off. This was transported last evening by the party. Air India has got no connection whatsoever with the aircraft below any situations: @airindiain— Ashoke Raj (@Ashoke_Raj) October 3, 2021
A Delhi airport official also confirmed to Times of India that the aircraft did not belong to the airport’s fleet.
“The aircraft certainly does not belong to the Delhi airport’s fleet and in the video, it is being transported without any wings. It appears to be a scrapped plane and the driver may have made a judgement of error while transporting it,” the official stated.
This is, surprisingly sufficient, not the 1st time that passersby have been left puzzled by the sight of a plane stuck on a road.
In 2019, a truck carrying an abandoned India Post aircraft got stuck below a bridge in West Bengal’s Durgapur.