Air India becomes first Indian airline to fly over North Pole

印度航空成为首家飞越北极的印度航空公司

MUMBAI: Celebrating probably its last Independence day as a national carrier, Air India hoisted its Boeing 777 aircraft over the North Pole to become the first Indian airline to operate commercial flights overflying the polar region.

孟买：印度航空波音777飞机飞越北极上空，成为首家在北极上空运营商业航班的印度航空公司，这或是其最后一次以国有航空公司的身份庆祝独立日。

Its Delhi-San Francisco flight, which usually overflies the Atlantic or the Pacific ocean, cut across latitudes instead on Thursday to fly over zero degree north in a feat that would probably be Air India’s last hurrah before it is thrown into the throes of privatisation.

印航从德里飞往旧金山的航班通常飞越大西洋或太平洋，但周四这次却飞越北极，这一壮举可能是印度航空私有化之前的最后一场欢呼。

Given the ongoing tension with the neighbour, the run-up to the polar route debut had Air India’s operations department chalk up two flight plans. “We were asked to be prepared for a Pakistan airspace closure on August 15. Had they shut down their airspace to Indian flights, we still would have flown the polar route, though with a different routing that took the aircraft over Strait of Hormuz and then northbound for the pole,” said an Air India source.

考虑到印度与邻国之间持续的紧张关系，在极地航线首次亮相之前，印度航空的运营部门制定了两项飞行计划。印航消息人士称：“8月15日，我们被告知要为巴基斯坦领空关闭做好准备。如果他们对印度航班关闭领空，我们仍然会选择极地航线，尽管航线有所不同，让飞机飞越霍尔木兹海峡，然后向北飞往北极。”

Delhi-San Francisco flight AI-173 lifted off at 4am, with about 243 passengers on board, overflew Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and overflew the North Pole by 12.27pm to cross over to the other side of planet Earth.

德里至旧金山的AI-173航班于凌晨4点起飞，机上约有243名乘客。该航班飞越巴基斯坦、阿富汗、哈萨克斯坦、俄罗斯，并于下午12点27分飞越北极，前往地球的另一侧。

印度时报读者的评论：

译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com/48250.html   译者：Jessica.Wu

外文：https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Muthuswami•2 hours ago

Excellent Congrats God bless India and all Indians.,Air India should not be privatised. Instead reorgantse the management.,Remove inefficient staff and crew.

祝贺，天佑印度，天佑印度人。印度航空公司不应该私有化，应该重组管理层。开除工作效率低下的员工。

Oldandcynical•2 hours ago

Congratulations, Maharaja!

祝贺

Rajesh K Kaundal•Chennai•2 hours ago

Technology is ruling our lives..... no tolerance for any kind of mistake . Great news

好消息。科技正在主宰我们的生活……不容任何错误发生。

Jainti•2 hours ago

India's first airline was Air India. So what is the big deal if it is the first Indian airline to fly over North Pole.

印度第一家航空公司就是印度航空。现在成为了首家飞越北极的印度航空公司，那也没什么大不了的。

Gururaj Babu•2 hours ago

Good achievement.

这成就还算是了不起的

Siv Sarkar•Unknown•3 hours ago

Good! We should have considered this option long before.

做得好！我们早就应该考虑这条航线了。

Girish•3 hours ago

Good but air India should be privatized.. can''t burn cash of tax payers for ever..

很好，但是印度航空应该私有化。不能总是烧纳税人的钱。

Dilip Kumar•Unknown•3 hours ago

Good... howthis route was never tried which is taking less time and also consume less fuel....

很好…这条航线以前从来没有飞过，时间更短，消耗的燃料更少…

New•dd•3 hours ago

sell airindia immediately to save tax payers money

立即出售印度航空，节省纳税人的钱

Vishal Pradhan•Pune, Maharashtra•3 hours ago

Stop this show off and bhadwagiri ok and make some real money! Loosers !!

别再炫耀了，好吧！赚点钱更实在!

A V•3 hours ago

What wonderful news for Air India very quietly and being underrated all the time creates history. I have always loved flying Air India and will always do so whenever I can.

对于印度航空来说，这是一个多好的消息啊!

我一直很喜欢乘坐印度航空的航班。

Amit Apte•3 hours ago

Bravo

太棒了

Sangita Das•3 hours ago

Information incomplete, need to share flying time saved and other airlines doing similar route.Very disgraceful. Emirates success story is failure story

信息不全，应该分享一下节省了多少飞行时间，这样其他航空公司也可以规划类似的航线。

Shirish•3 hours ago

No doubt lots of talented people, not allowed to perform because of Political interference.

毫无疑问，有很多人才，因为政治干预而没有施展才华的舞台。

Jagdish Madan•Vancouver BC•3 hours ago

Flying over North Pole must be AI''s only hurrah! It has been in the news for every wrong reason and been a drain on the Indian economy ever since it was taken over from the Tatas.

飞越北极一定是印度航空唯一值得欢呼的事了!

自从被塔塔接管以来，印度航空一直因为各种失误而出现在新闻中，它已经成为印度经济的累赘了。

Anand Kumar•Unknown•2 hours ago

Hope that AI will not botch up & fly over South Pole instead!!

希望印度航空可别搞砸，下次飞越南极上空！

Niraj•2 hours ago

are u sure?,cuz u said the other day that it had already achieved that feat in 2005 or 2007.,I read it in ur post only.

确定吗?你之前说过，印度航空已经在2005年还是2007年实现了这一壮举。我从你的帖子里看到的

Nekibul Haque•2 hours ago

Good news

好消息

Shiva Kumara•Unknown•3 hours ago

Stewards are drunk up that''s thing I noticed

我发现空乘喝醉了

Raja Paul•3 hours ago

Reporter got up from sleep and wrote it seems.

看来这是记者刚从睡梦中醒来写的文章

Bonny Moraes•Goa•2 hours ago

Was it a some sort of short cut?

这条航线是捷径吗？