The Director General of Passenger Services and Sales for Asia Region in Saudi Arabian Airlines for Air Transport Mohsen Al-Qarni has pointed out that Saudia flight coming from Jeddah to Colombo airport arrived at the usual time on Thursday, and after the departure of all the passengers of the plane, the competent service company for preparing the planes at Colombo airport started routine cleaning works in preparation for the return flight from Colombo to Jeddah No. 781. He said in a statement, "During the preparation of the plane by the service company, the navigators noted a leak from the main water tube feeding the first-class compartment, and the pilot was informed, who ordered immediately the postponement of passengers' boarding the plane until the leakage is processed. A specialist technical team of the aircraft maintenance at the airport was called on, and the flight departed after a delay of two hours and nineteen minutes, which is all the time it took from the discovery of the leak, fixing it and passengers' boarding the plane. Al-Qarni pointed out that the defect occurred during preparing and cleaning the plane by the service company, indicating that the leak was from the clean water tube which is completely separate from the sewage system of the plane.
