Air India aircraft in which Minister travelled was new, but most seats were ‘sunken’
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Air India aircraft in which Minister travelled was new, but most seats were ‘sunken’

The Hindu  

The seats on the Air India aircraft on which Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan flew on Saturday were new and so was the aircraft. Nearly 60% of the seats of Air India’s Airbus A321 Neo aircraft, registered as VT-RTB, were “sunken or thinned”, according to a document that lists inoperative equipment on a plane called the Minimum Equipment List accessed by The Hindu. The aircraft VT-RTB was delivered to Air India in April 2023, and is not among its legacy aircraft infamous for broken seats and in-operative in-flight entertainment screens. “The seats don’t have a seat pan, as a result the seat cushion takes all the weight of the passenger occupying the seat,” one industry official explained.

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Hindustan Times  

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