Jet-Spice near miss over Mumbai

Mumbai: A Jet Airways and a SpiceJet aircraft narrowly missed each other in Mumbai’s skies on Friday, at an altitude of 18,000 feet. The air miss happened at around 2 pm, when the two flights—Jet Airways flight 9W-306 from Delhi and SpiceJet's SG-263 from Ahmedabad—were on their descent path towards the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
“Our flight was holding under the control of ATC (air traffic control) Mumbai and when it was descending from 18,000 feet to 17,000 feet, there was a TCAS warning,” said Captain R L Kapoor, Director (Flight Safety), SpiceJet.
“Apart from the visual warning, there was a resolution advisory, which is an audio warning and the pilot took action accordingly,” added Captain J S Dhillon, Vice President (Operations), SpiceJet. The resolution advisory by the TCAS offers the pilot direct, vocal instructions when another aircraft is dangerously close.
Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has “instituted an inquiry and investigations are on,” according to P Shaw, Director (Air Safety), Western Region.
05/05/07 Lekha Agarwal/Mumbai Newsline

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