Air India becomes the first to use Taxibot on commercial Airbus flight
Air
India on Tuesday became the first airline in the world to use a
Taxibot
on a A320 aircraft with passengers onboard.
Taxibot
is a robot-used aircraft tractor for taxiing an aircraft from parking
bay to runway and vice versa.
On
Tuesday morning, the national carrier's Chairman and Managing
Director Ashwani Lohani flagged off flight AI665 - which was carried
to runway using Taxibot at terminal 3 of the Delhi airport - to
Mumbai. With Taxibot it is possible to tow an aircraft from the
parking bay to the runway with its engines switched off.
It
is a pilot controlled semi-robotic towbarless aircraft tractor used
as an alternate taxiing equipment.
"The
use of Taxibot on the Air India aircraft at Indira Gandhi
International Airport today morning is the first such usage on any
Airbus aircraft worldwide. Really an achievement to be proud of. A
giant step forward towards a cleaner environment," Lohani said.
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