Jet Airways fiasco: parts failure may have caused landing gear collapse

A suspected component failure could be the prima facie cause in the landing gear collapse of a Jet Airways plane at the Mumbai Airport Thursday, DGCA sources said on Friday. The incident affected flight operations at the Mumbai airport with flight arriving or departing by an average delay of 30-40 minutes besides score of flights diverted to other airports in view of the runway closure to the stranded aircraft, they said.