A decision to recall the A340 to Colombo took about 90 minutes after the flight had departed. On arrival the aircraft made three fly-bys with the undercarriage deployed to enable SriLankan Airline's ground engineers to ensure that there was no visual structural damage to the landing gear. All passengers were reboarded on another SriLankan A340 flight within two hours. However, aviation sources said it took a maximum of 30 minutes to dump the fuel. If the fault had been detected on take-off it was possible for the flight to have jettisoned the fuel and returned to the BIA within one hour.
Election manifestos are documents that endorse proposed policies of political parties.
These are vote catching gimmicks. All political parties utter lies in their manifestos and the party which utter better and more effective lies is the side that wins. If they do not utter lies, they simply lose. The big denial D espite the state media carrying President's speech, on Saturday came the denial from the Department of Information saying that the media were trying to distort the President's speech and trying to show that the state officials were corrupt. T he Ruhunuputra who could not stand the Premadasa offspring and eventually pole-vaulted to his former blue camp has received yet another elevation.