Private airlines and state-run Air India were operating in 58 cities across the country before the pandemic forced the government to suspend all domestic flights from March 23 to May 25. 'With average 270 flights daily, about 30,000 passengers were flown to non-metro cities from the city airport in January,' said the consortium's operator. Kunz managing director Andreas Fuge and Millennium Aero Dynamics Ltd chairman Milan R Zatakia were present at the commissioning of the kit at the airport.ĭomestic flight operations resumed partially on May 25, 2020, at the country's third-largest airport after the extended COVID-induced lockdown was lifted and frequency was increased gradually, as per the standard operating procedures of the Union Home Ministry and guidelines of the Union Health Ministry to contain the virus spread. 'The recovery kit has ground preparation tools, aircraft lifting, de-bogging, tethering and towing narrow and wide-body jets when disabled,' the operator added. The operator will form a quick response recovery team for handling the emergency situation on the airport's runway. 'The equipment is also capable of recovering even the largest passenger aircraft Airbus A380 during an emergency on the runway,' said the statement. 'The transportable kit will ensure the runway closure is minimal in the event of an incident, as a disabled aircraft on the runway can disrupt airport operations, delay or divert flights,' said BIAL chief executive Hari Marar on the occasion.Īs part of the deal, signed in 2020, Kunz will maintain the kit and set up a centre for disabled aircraft recovery training at the Devanahalli airport, about 40km north of this tech city. Touted to be the first of its kind in India and South Asia, the hi-tech equipment was manufactured by Kunz GmbH of Germany. Army approving and fielding the upgraded kit.'The disabled aircraft recovery kit will enable faster resumption of operations in the event of an incident on the runway of our Kempegowda international airport,' said operator Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) in a statement here. These approvals subsequently lead to the U.S. Acceleration times histories, collected for all flight test events, were used to develop the flight test load spectrum used in the fatigue analysis of the kit hardware.Īll of the airworthiness documentation and flight test data was reviewed and approved by the Army’s Aviation Engineering Directorate (AED). We also supported flight qualification testing (including test planning, test execution, flight test data collection, post-test inspections, and test data reduction and documentation) for all aerial recovery configurations. This analysis was used to substantiate the airworthiness certification, fatigue life, and damage tolerance of the hardware. We performed the loads and stress analysis on the CH-47 Chinook, AH-64 Apache, UH-60 Blackhawk, OH-58 Kiowa Warrior, MQ-1 Grey Eagle, and UH-72 Lakota. Army Aviation assets to demonstrate the ability of the aircraft/rotorcraft to withstand the flight loads induced on the airframes during a typical aerial recovery mission. We also performed the airworthiness analysis on various U.S. We performed the airworthiness substantiation analysis on the aerial kit hardware, which included a wide range of lifting devices, belly bands/cargo nets, and Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) synthetic longlines. We participated in a large development program to redesign the kit to ultimately improve the capability and enhance overall system safety. This kit is used to recover disabled and crash-damaged helicopters and drones.

The Unit Maintenance Aerial Recovery Kit (UMARK) is a system that is currently fielded by the U.S Army.

Umark aircraft recovery kit