Maldives airline apologises for plane’s landing gear malfunction
The plane landed safety after flying in a holding pattern for more than an hour.
13 Mar 2019, 9:00 AM
The national carrier Maldivian airline has apologised for a “technical problem” that caused an Addu City-bound flight’s landing gear to malfunction on Tuesday.
The stuck landing gear forced the 50-seat Dash 8 plane to fly in a holding pattern over the Gan international airport for more than an hour. The flight landed safely around 1:35pm after manually lowering the landing gear.
The plane made two low passes over the runway until air traffic control visually confirmed the landing gear was down.
“The company is doing everything necessary to find out and solve the problem the plane faced,” the state-owned Island Aviation Services that operates the airline said in a statement Wednesday, apologising for the difficulties and distress experienced by the passengers.
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