During the winter period of 2016, a heavy downfall in traffic caused the airline to temporarily ground dozens of aircraft, including Deli Mike. The aircraft was reconfigured to have an all-economy class layout, without any business class seats. From July 2016 onwards, TC-JDM and other A340 aircraft in the Turkish Airlines fleet were used on charter flights to carry passengers to Hajj. Turkish Airlines pulled its Airbus A340 aircraft from scheduled flights in May 2016. None of the occupants were injured in the incident. In September 2011, Deli Mike had a runway excursion while landing at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. Subsequent history ĭespite their age, Airbus A340's were used as " jokers" in the 2010s, flying both short domestic and long-haul flights. Following the technical problems surrounding the aircraft, technicians of Turkish Airlines have swapped "Delta" to "Deli"-meaning "crazy" in Turkish-to reflect the characteristics of the aircraft, which resulted in the nickname "Deli Mike". In the ICAO spelling alphabet used in aviation, the spelling of D and M, the final two letters of the civil registration of the aircraft, is "Delta Mike". One popular story among technical staff states that an employee fixed the faulty flight instruments of the aircraft simply by talking to it. Frequent problems with the aircraft included the reading light of a completely different passenger turning on when the button is pressed, and the same issue also exists with the button used to call a crew member. On one occasion, the aircraft started sounding the master caution alarm in the cockpit, causing one of the inexperienced cabin crew members to panic. The aircraft also made "small jokes" to passengers and crew. Occasionally, the lights of the emergency exits would turn on one by one from front to back "like a Mexican wave", not all at the same time, which according to the cabin crew meant that Deli Mike "was in a good mood". Sometimes, the aircraft would turn its external lights on by itself and then back off when someone tried to intervene. Shortly after delivery, the aircraft started to have "random" technical issues and failures. In December 2022, it was flown to Mehrabad International Airport. The aircraft was stored at Johannesburg for almost 4 years. Tambo International Airport later that year and re-registered as 2-AVRA. Deli Mike was removed from the Turkish Airlines fleet in early 2019 and was flown to O. It was re-configured in 2016 to only have economy class seats and was solely used to carry pilgrims to Hajj. In its late use, the aircraft operated both long-haul and short-haul flights. This unreliability gave the aircraft its nickname, which is a wordplay on the ICAO spelling alphabet. During its operation, Deli Mike had a record of having minor and strange technical failures. The aircraft joined the Turkish Airlines fleet in 1996 to replace the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s of the airline and was used to operate long-haul flights out of Turkey. Airbus A340 aircraft with strange unreliability Deli Mikeĭeli Mike or Deli Mayk ( English: Crazy Mike) is a nickname given to an Airbus A340-300 operated by Turkish Airlines with civil registration TC-JDM.
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