Budget carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday took out a statement condoling the death of its technician.
The elder sister of the SpiceJet technician who died in a freak accident in Kolkata airport today said that airline authorities had not informed the family of his death.
Vandana Pandey today said that she and the family had received the information of her brother Rohit Pandey's death at 3 AM in the morning from a friend of Rohit who worked at the airport along with him. "They did not bother to inform us of his death, even hours after the accident," she said, speaking of SpiceJet authorities.
She also blamed the irresponsibility of the airport staff behind Rohit's death. "When a member of the staff is working in a risky scenario, there should at least have been another personnel looking after his safety," she said, "The negligence is definitely at fault here."
Another family member echoed Vandana's statements and said, "If it's not negligence, why was he left hanging like that for an entire hour after the flaps closed around his neck? It must be their fault."
Budget carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday condoled the death of its technician.
In a statement, the airline explained what led to technician Rohit Pandey's death.
"Extremely saddened to share that our technician Rohit Pandey passed away last night in an unfortunate incident at Kolkata airport. He was doing maintenance work in right-hand main landing gear wheel well area of a Q400 aircraft which was parked in Bay No. 32 at the airport," said SpiceJet
"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," the statement explained.
The incident took place in the morning at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport of the city.
The body was later removed from the landing gear with the help of the fire brigade.
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