India Report
Welcome Guest Login | Sign Up | My News | Business Pentatonic
Choose Themes
BREAKING NEWS  
Narrow escape for students as lightening strikes Jammu school            India lose Nagpur test            Widespread rains across Punjab, Haryana; mercury rises            Students go on rampage against pvt coaching centres in Patna            One killed, six injured in landslides           
National

DGCA blames Air India pilot for near-miss incident in Mumbai

Published:
 Feedback  Sign in to Email  Print  Discussion

New Delhi, July 14 An enquiry into the recent near-miss incident in Mumbai Airport involving two planes of Jet Airways and Air India has revealed the incident happened as the crew of the latter took the take-off clearance meant for the former as its own.

Informing this in the Rajya Sabha today, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said an enquiry was conducted by DGCA to ascertain the near miss on May 31.

"It revealed loss of situational awareness and also expectancy bias by crew of Air India flight which took take-off clearance meant for Jet as its own and initiated take off."

He said the take off clearance was issued to Jet Airways&apos Kolkata-bound flight after which it commenced take off from runway no 14. Air India&aposs Delhi-bound flight was issued line up clearance for runway no 27.

However, the Air India flight started moving on the runway for take off.

The Minister said on observing Air India aircraft commencing take off, the controller instructed the Air India flight to hold position.

"The Jet crew which were monitoring the frequency, on assessing the situation rejected take off as a precautionary step, thus the incident was averted,"he said.
Source:
 
 
Share this Bookmark to: Webnews Bookmark to: Bookmarks.at Bookmark to: Folkd Bookmark to: Digg Bookmark to: Facebook Bookmark to: Reddit Bookmark to: Jumptags Bookmark to: Slashdot Bookmark to: Propeller Bookmark to: Furl Bookmark to: Yahoo Bookmark to: Spurl Bookmark to: Google Bookmark to: Blinklist Bookmark to: Technorati Bookmark to: Blinkbits Bookmark to: Smarking Bookmark to: Netvouz Information
*User Name
Note: All fields marked with*are mandatory.
*Password
*Security Image
Comments
  
Total Comments
FEATURED ARTICLES