False ceiling crashes at Chennai airport once again
Posted on: 12/Aug/2013 12:22:38 PM
In May, a section of the gypsum board false ceiling had fallen in the departure gates H 4 and H 5. For the second time since the terminal was thrown open to the public, a large section of the false ceiling came crashing down. Luckily, the roof gave way on a Saturday night at 12.50 am - an hour that no domestic planes operate at, which meant that no one was around when it happened. Frighteningly, the section of gypsum board and the Armstrong ceiling tiles that came crashing down was right behind the row of check-in counters in the East Wing. It appears that due to heavy condensation, the gypsum board ceiling had become full of moisture. It kept getting heavier and finally fell off the ceiling frame. The condensate had come from the return air that the AC diffusers use.
Officials from AAI were pulled out of bed in the wee hours on Sunday, since this is the second such incident. Engineers from AAI also went to the departure gate to ascertain why the incident had happened. They removed all 23 broken ceiling tiles and cleared the debris by 4 am.
